十月份 (shí yuè fèn) — October

Definition

noun
October

Examples

  • 十月份。
    shí yuè fèn Shì běi jīng zuì měi de jì jié.
    October is the most beautiful season in Beijing.
  • 十月份。
    Wǒ men jì huà shí yuè fèn qù rì běn lǚ xíng.
    We plan to travel to Japan in October.
  • 十月份，。
    shí yuè fèn Tiān qì biàn lěng le, yào duō chuān yī fu.
    The weather gets cold in October; you need to wear more clothes.

Origin

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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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
亻Written in full as人rén
Sound part声符shēngfú
分
分fēn份fèn(r)
Same sound today

份 is built from 亻, the person form written in full as 人, and 分, which gives the sound.

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