The Chinese word for December is
十二月
shí èr yuèChinese Definition
December | |
1. 十二月份 | |
2. 十二月 | |
Components | |
十二 | |
1. num. twelve; 12 | |
十二 宵夜 - twelve nights | |
二月 | |
1. n. February | |
2. n. The modern name for the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar. | |
十 | |
1. ten | |
2. (figurative) topmost; utmost | |
十分 - very | |
十全十美 - perfect | |
二 | |
1. two | |
二 號 線 (èr hào xiàn) - line no. 2 | |
2. second | |
二哥 - second elder brother | |
二意 - tr=èryì - | |
二心 - tr=èrxīn - | |
3. (handwritten, dated, now, informal) (An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hanzi; often written at a smaller size when used for this purpose.) | |
Synonyms: 々, 〻 | |
4. Short for "twenty, two hundred or two thousand" after hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. | |
※ (Such a definition of a number results from a number's being used without a unit after a quantity with both a value (exists even if hidden) and a unit to indicate the quantity with the value | |
百 二 - one hundred twenty | |
百 二 (pah jī) - one hundred twenty, MN | |
買 電腦 花 了 一 千 二。 (Mǎi diànnǎo huā le yī qiān èr.) - Buying the computer cost me a thousand and two hundred bucks. | |
5. Short for "twenty cents". | |
黃瓜 一 塊 二 一 斤。 (Huángguā yī kuài èr yī jīn.) - The cucumbers are one dollar twenty per half kilogram. | |
6. (dialectal Mandarin) stupid, dumb; silly, thick, lacking mental agility (often in a cute way) | |
你 這 人 怎麼 這麼 二! (Nǐ zhè rén zěnme zhème èr!) - Why are you so incorrigibly stupid! | |
7. (HKC, school slang) to obtain a level two in a subject in DSE (exam) (usually implies failing the subject) | |
我 中文man4-2 二 咗,入 唔到 Uju1。 - I got a level two in Chinese, can't get into university. | |
8. (classical) Alternative form of 貳; usually limited to the simplified script | |
不二过 - tr=bù'èrguò | |
9. usage. See 兩 - Usage notes. | |
月 | |
1. (literary or dialectal) moon | |
2. moon-shaped objects | |
3. (literary) moonlight | |
4. month | |
Synonyms: 月份, wuu:號頭 | |
5. monthly | |
月薪 - yuèxīn - monthly wage | |
6. Variant of 肉 | |
7. Variant of 夕 | |
8. Variant of 明 |
Translations for 月 and their definitions
十二月 | |
1. n. December | |
2. n. twelfth month of the Chinese calendar |
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