月 yuè
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
月光
yuèguāng
moonlight
Characters in this word
光 guāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- Made of
- ⺌ small 兀 weak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 月光透过窗帘，落在书桌上的旧照片旁。 Yuèguāng tòuguò chuānglián, luò zài shūzhuō shàng de jiù zhàopiàn páng. Moonlight passed through the curtain and fell beside the old photograph on the desk.
- 我们坐在院子里，借着月光聊天。 Wǒmen zuò zài yuànzi lǐ, jiè zhe yuèguāng liáotiān. We sat in the yard and chatted by moonlight.
- 湖面上洒满了银白的月光。 Húmiàn shàng sǎ mǎn le yínbái de yuèguāng. The lake surface was bathed in silvery moonlight.
Related words
- 月 yuè month; moon
- 月份 yuèfèn month
- 月亮 yuèliang moon
- 上个月 shànggeyuè last month
- 下个月 xiàgèyuè next month
- 月底 yuèdǐ end of the month
- 岁月 suìyuè years; time
- 月饼 yuèbǐng mooncake
- 月球 yuèqiú the Moon
- 腊月 làyuè twelfth lunar month
- 蜜月 mìyuè honeymoon; honeymoon period
- 日新月异 rìxīnyuèyì to change with each passing day; rapid progress