如月

Кинески

		as (if); such as	moon; month
трад. (如月)		如	月
једн. #(如月)		如	月

Pronunciation

• Мандарин

  (Пинјин): Rúyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˊ ㄩㄝˋ

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• Мандарин
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Пинјин: Rúyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ruyueh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Rúyuè
    • Wade–Giles: Ju2-yüeh4
    • Sinological МФА ^(key): /ʐu³⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

Proper noun

如月

1. (archaic) The second month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Synonyms

• 杏月 (Xìngyuè), 麗月／丽月, 花月, 柳月, 仲春, 酣春, 艷春／艳春, 芳春, 早春

See also

• Month of the Year: 如月
  • Previous: 正月
  • Next: 桃月

Note: Any month in the Chinese calendar may be preceded or followed by an intercalary month, an irregular month inserted into the calendar to bring the lunar year in line with the solar year.

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Јапански

Kanji in this term
如	月
きさらぎ
Степен: S	Степен: 1
jukujikun

Alternative spellings
二月 衣更着 更衣

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese. First cited in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE with the unvoiced reading kisaraki.

Further derivation ultimately unknown.

• Listed in Japanese resources as deriving from 衣 (kinu, “robes, clothing”) + 更 (sara, “again, more”) + 着 (ki, “wearing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 着る (kiru, “to wear clothing on the upper body”)). This is also evidenced in the alternative spelling 衣更着.

However, some sources also note that this spelling only arose in the late Heian period when the poet 藤原清輔 (Fujiwara no Kiyosuke) proposed this derivation in his work 奥儀抄 (Ōgishō), completed 1144.

• Alternative native hypotheses include:
  • Compound of 気 (ki, “spirits, mood”) + 更 (sara, “again, more”) + 来 (ki, “coming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 来る (kuru, “to come”)), from the sense of one's mood improving as winter comes to a close.
  • Compound of 生 (ki, “live; life”, short for iki) + 更 (sara, “again, more”) + 来 (ki, “coming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 来る (kuru, “to come”)), from the sense of plants putting forth new shoots.
• Separately, James Marshall Unger suggests that this may ultimately be cognate with modern Корејски 겨울 (gyeoul, “winter”). Compare obsolete or dialectal form 겨슬 (gyeoseul), and Middle Korean 겨ᅀᆞᆶ (kyezolh). In this hypothesis, the /o/ in the Middle Korean is potentially problematic, but Unger views the final /-lh/ as a good match for the final /-raɡi/ in the Јапански.

The derivation of the 如月 spelling is also unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きさらぎ [kìsárágí] (Heiban – [0])
• МФА^(кључ): [kʲi̥sa̠ɾa̠ɡʲi]

Noun

如月(きさらぎ) (kisaragi) 

1. (archaic) the second month of the lunar calendar
2. (poetic) February

Coordinate terms

• (Japanese calendar months) 睦(む)月(つき) (mutsuki), 如月(きさらぎ) (kisaragi), 弥(や)生(よい) (yayoi), 卯(う)月(づき) (uzuki), 皐(さ)月(つき) (satsuki), 水(み)無(な)月(づき) (minazuki), 文(ふみ)月(づき) (fumizuki), 葉(は)月(づき) (hazuki), 長(なが)月(つき) (nagatsuki), 神(かん)無(な)月(づき) (kannazuki), 霜(しも)月(つき) (shimotsuki), 師(し)走(わす) (shiwasu) ^{(Категорија: ja:Japanese calendar months)}

Further reading

• Entry in Gogen-Allguide (in Japanese)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
如	月
じょ Степен: S	げつ Степен: 1
kan’on

Unknown. Appears to be coined in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 如 (jo, “resemble, look like”) +‎ 月 (getsu, “moon; month”).

First cited with this reading to a text from 1559.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じょ​げつ [jóꜜgètsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• МФА^(кључ): [d͡ʑo̞ɡe̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

如(じょ)月(げつ) (jogetsu) 

1. (archaic) the second month of the lunar calendar