Chinese edit

 
one; single; a
one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
moon; month
simp. and trad.
(一月)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (31)
Final () (48) (68)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'jit ngjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiɪt̚/ /ŋʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔit̚/ /ŋʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjet̚/ /ŋiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔit̚/ /ŋuat̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiĕt̚/ /ŋiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭĕt̚/ /ŋĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ĕt̚/ /ŋi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yi yuè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jat1 jyut6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yuè
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjit › ‹ ngjwot ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔi[t]/ /*[ŋ]ʷat/
English one moon, month

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 14833 16319
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qliɡ/ /*ŋod/

Noun edit

一月

  1. January
  2. first month of the Chinese lunar calendar

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (一月):

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
いち
Grade: 1
がつ
Grade: 1
goon
Alternative spelling
1月

From (ichi, one) +‎ (-gatsu, month).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(いち)(がつ) (ichigatsu

  1. January
  2. (archaic) the first month of the lunar calendar
    Synonym: 睦月 (mutsuki)
  3. one month
Derived terms edit
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
いち
Grade: 1
げつ
Grade: 1
goon kan’on

Compound of Middle Chinese-derived elements (ichi, one, 呉音 (goon, literally Wu-sound) reading) +‎ (getsu, moon, month, 漢音 (kan'on, literally Han-sound) reading).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(いち)(げつ) (ichigetsu

  1. (archaic) the first month of the lunar calendar
  2. one month
  3. a full moon
Derived terms edit
Proverbs edit

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
ひと
Grade: 1
つき
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Possibly from Old Japanese.

Compound of (hito, one) +‎ (tsuki, month).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(ひと)(つき) (hitotsuki

  1. one month
Coordinate terms edit
Japanese number-counter combinations for (つき) (tsuki)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 How many?
(ひと)(つき) (hitotsuki) (ふた)(つき) (futatsuki) ()(つき) (mitsuki) ()(つき) (yotsuki) (いつ)(つき) (itsutsuki) ()(つき) (mutsuki) (なな)(つき) (nanatsuki) ()(つき) (yatsuki) (ここの)(つき) (kokonotsuki) ()(つき) (totsuki) (なん)(つき) (nantsuki)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

一月 (irwol) (hangeul 일월)

  1. Hanja form? of 일월.

Okinawan edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
いち
Grade: 1
ぐゎち
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Cognate with mainland Japanese 一月 (ichigatsu).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(いち)(ぐゎち) (ichigwachiいちぐゎつぃ (itigwatwi)?

  1. January
  2. the first month of the lunar calendar
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
ちゅ
Grade: 1
ちち
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Cognate with mainland Japanese 一月 (hitotsuki).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(ちゅ)(ちち) (chuchichiちゅつぃち (tyutwiti)?

  1. one month
Derived terms edit

Old Japanese edit

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Etymology edit

From (pi1to2, one) +‎ (tuki2, month).

Noun edit

一月 (pi1to2tuki2) (kana ひとつき)

  1. one month
    • 720, Nihon Shoki, (Emperor Keitai, twenty-fourth year of reign [c. 530 CE], ninth month in autumn):
      是二國、圖便地、淹畱弦晦、築城而還、號曰久禮牟羅
      Thus the two countries [Baekje and Silla] measured out a piece of ground, settling for a month. They built a castle, named it Kuremura-nö-Sasi, and returned home.

Descendants edit