長月

Japanese

Kanji in this term
なが
Grade: 2
つき
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

(ながい, nagai), "long" + (つき, tsuki), "month"

Pronunciation

Noun

長月 (hiragana ながつき, rōmaji nagatsuki)

  1. (archaic) the ninth month of the lunar calendar
  2. (poetic) the long month; September

Coordinate terms

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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