moon

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph of the moon in oracle-bone and seal script. The image was gradually simplified into a rectangle with a horizontal stroke in the middle, representing the bright face of the moon.

Mnemonic: Picture a simple rectangle with a line across the middle—that is the moon glowing round and bright in the sky.

• 月yuè🔊

  moon

  HSK 1

  4 strokes

• 有yǒu🔊

  to have; there is

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 服fú🔊

  clothes

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 朋péng🔊

  friend

  8 strokes

• 朊ruǎn🔊

  protein

  8 strokes

• 朏fěi🔊

  (literary) (of the crescent moon) to begin to shine

  9 strokes

• 朐Qú🔊

  surname Qu

  9 strokes

• 胧lóng🔊

  used in 朦朧|朦胧[meng2 long2]

  9 strokes

• 朕zhèn🔊

  (used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we")

  10 strokes

• 朗lǎng🔊

  clear

  10 strokes

• 朓tiǎo🔊

  (literary) the appearance of the moon in the west at the end of a lunar month

  10 strokes

• 朔shuò🔊

  beginning

  10 strokes

• 望wàng🔊

  full moon

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 朘zuī🔊

  (literary) young boy's penis

  11 strokes

• 朙míng🔊

  old variant of 明[ming2]

  11 strokes

• 朝cháo🔊

  imperial or royal court

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 期qī🔊

  variant of 期[qi1]

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 朠yīng🔊

  (archaic) moonlight

  12 strokes

• 朣tóng🔊

  light from the rising moon

  16 strokes

• 朦méng🔊

  used in 朦朧|朦胧[meng2 long2]

  17 strokes