月桂

Chinese

		moon; month	Cinnamomum cassia; Guangxi Autonomous Region (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (月桂)		月	桂
anagram		桂月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèguì

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ gwai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèguì
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèguèi
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-kuei⁴
    • Yale: ywè-gwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuehguey
    • Palladius: юэгуй (jueguj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ gwai³
    • Yale: yuht gwai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ gwai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ guei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² kʷɐi̯³³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 月季 月桂

Noun

月桂

1. bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
2. (literary, Chinese mythology) sweet osmanthus on the Moon
3. (literary, figurative) the Moon; moonlight
4. (literary, figurative, historical) passing the imperial examination and winning a title

Derived terms

• 月桂冠 (yuèguìguān)
• 月桂樹／月桂树 (yuèguìshù)
• 月桂酸 (yuèguìsuān)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
月	桂
げつ > げっ Grade: 1	けい Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Noun

月(げっ)桂(けい) • (gekkei) 

1. laurel
   • 1922, 芥川龍之介, 神神の微笑:

     庭(にわ)の橄欖(カンラン)や月桂(げっけい)は、ひっそりと夕闇(ゆうやみ)に聳(そび)えていた。

     Niwa no kanran ya gekkei wa, hissori to yūyami ni sobiete ita.

     The white olives, laurels, and so on towered silently in the twilight of the garden.

2. the moon
3. moonlight