葉月

Japanese

Kanji in this term
葉	月
は Grade: 3	つき > づき Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

葉 (は, ha), "leaf" + 月 (つき, tsuki), "month"

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はづき [háꜜzùkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠zɨkʲi]

Noun

葉(は)月(づき) • (hazuki)

(archaic) the eighth month of the lunar calendar
(poetic) the leaf month; August

Coordinate terms: 睦月, 如月, 弥生, 卯月, 皐月, 水無月, 文月, 葉月, 長月, 神無月, 霜月, 師走

Proper noun

葉(は)月(づき) • (Hazuki)

a female given name

Proper noun

葉月(はつき) • (Hatsuki)

(rare) a female given name

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN