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十月 (shí yuè) — October; the tenth month of the lunar calendar

Definition

noun
Octoberthe tenth month of the lunar calendar

Examples

  • 十月。
    shí yuè Shì yì nián zhōng de dì shí gè yuè.
    October is the tenth month of the year.
  • 十月。
    Tā men dǎ suàn zài shí yuè jié hūn.
    They plan to get married in October.
  • 十月。
    shí yuè De tiān qì kāi shǐ biàn liáng le.
    The weather starts to get cool in October.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

十shíten
月yuèmonth

“十” gives the number ten and “月” gives month, together naming the tenth month.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The early shape 十 was mostly a single vertical stroke, sometimes with a dot, and later gained a horizontal stroke to form a cross. For the number ten, it marked the next digit above one.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

月 was drawn as a crescent moon, with the curved outline showing the moon’s shape.

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