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Word and Radical Components of 八月

The Chinese word 八月 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
八月 bāyuè 1. n. August
2. n. eighth month of the Chinese calendar

八月 ⇨ 八 + 月
Component Pinyin Meanings
八 bā 1. eight
2. many; numerous
3. (printing) pearl (the smallest size of usual type, standardized as 5 point)
4. Short for 八卦
5.    to gossip (about); to stick one's nose in
6.    (Cantonese) nosey; meddling
7.   八婆 - nosey parker; meddling woman
     Ba
bā 8. Variant of 捌
月 yuè 1. (literary or dialectal) moon
2. moon-shaped objects
3. (literary) moonlight
4. month
     Synonyms: 月份, wuu:號頭
5. monthly
     月薪 - yuèxīn - monthly wage
6. Variant of 肉
7. Variant of 夕
8. Variant of 明

八 ⇨ 丿 + 乁
Component Pinyin Meanings
丿 piě 1. slash
yì 2. left-falling stroke, usually read as 撇
3. to arrive
乁 1. Variant of 移
2. Variant of 及
3. Variant of 乀

月 ⇨ 冂 + 二
Component Pinyin Meanings
冂 jiōng 1. down box
2. (obsolete) city outskirts; suburbs
二 èr 1. two
     二 號 線 (èr hào xiàn) - line no. 2
2. second
     二哥 - second elder brother
     二意 - tr=èryì -
     二心 - tr=èrxīn -
3. (handwritten, dated, now, informal) (An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hanzi; often written at a smaller size when used for this purpose.)
     Synonyms: 々, 〻
4. Short for "twenty, two hundred or two thousand" after hundreds, thousands and ten thousands.
     ※ (Such a definition of a number results from a number's being used without a unit after a quantity with both a value (exists even if hidden) and a unit to indicate the quantity with the value
     百 二 - one hundred twenty
     百 二 (pah jī) - one hundred twenty, MN
     買 電腦 花 了 一 千 二。 (Mǎi diànnǎo huā le yī qiān èr.) - Buying the computer cost me a thousand and two hundred bucks.
5. Short for "twenty cents".
     黃瓜 一 塊 二 一 斤。 (Huángguā yī kuài èr yī jīn.) - The cucumbers are one dollar twenty per half kilogram.
6. (dialectal Mandarin) stupid, dumb; silly, thick, lacking mental agility (often in a cute way)
     你 這 人 怎麼 這麼 二！ (Nǐ zhè rén zěnme zhème èr!) - Why are you so incorrigibly stupid!
7. (HKC, school slang) to obtain a level two in a subject in DSE (exam) (usually implies failing the subject)
     我 中文man4-2 二 咗，入 唔到 Uju1。 - I got a level two in Chinese, can't get into university.
8. (classical) Alternative form of 貳; usually limited to the simplified script
     不二过 - tr=bù'èrguò
9. usage. See 兩 - Usage notes.