月子

Chinese

		moon; month	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (月子)		月	子
anagram		子月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ zi²
• Jin (Wiktionary): ye^4-5 zeh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: ywè-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh.tzy
    • Palladius: юэцзы (jueczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ zi²
    • Yale: yuht jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² t͡siː³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ye^4-5 zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ye²⁻⁵⁴ t͡səʔ¹/

Noun

月子

1. the month following childbirth, during which the mother goes through the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in; puerperium
2. time of childbirth
3. the moon

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 月子 (“postpartum confinement”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		月子
Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	月子窠兒, 月子窠兒裡
	Wanrong	月子
	Yinchuan	月子裡
	Wuhan	月裡
	Xuzhou	月窩兒, 月子窩兒, 月地兒, 月子地兒
	Nanjing	月子底下
	Singapore	月子
Gan	Nanchang	月子裡
Jin	Taiyuan	月子
	Xinzhou	月子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	月裡
Southern Min	Xiamen	月內
	Quanzhou	月內
	Jinjiang	月內
	Zhangzhou	月內
	Tainan	月內 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	月內
	Singapore (Hokkien)	月內
	Manila (Hokkien)	月內
	Leizhou	月內
	Haikou	月內
Puxian Min	Putian	月內
	Xianyou	月內
Wu	Shanghai	月子裡, 月裡向, 舍姆裡
	Danyang	月子裡
	Wenzhou	月裡
Note	GT - General Taiwanese

Derived terms

• 出月子
• 坐月子 (zuòyuèzi)
• 月子房
• 月子病 (yuèzibìng)
• 鬧小月子／闹小月子

 

See also

• 月嫂 (yuèsǎo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
月	子
つき Grade: 1	こ Grade: 1

Proper noun

月(つき)子(こ) • (Tsukiko) 

1. a female given name