月: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- month, moon
- On readings (katakana)
- ゲツ、ガツ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- つき
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- おと、がっ、す、ずき、もり
- Strokes
- 4
- Grade
- 1: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 1
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 23 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 월
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 月
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.