The Chinese Radical: 月




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Meaning
moon, month    月

Explanation When it is at the left in the character then often with the meaning "body part". If at the right, then as "moon, month, period".

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
front, ahead, before, first, former
qián
Top: a part 䒑 of the head/horns of a sheep 羊, bottom: meat 月/肉, knife, cut刂
The horns and the flesh are cut (beginning) at the front position.  
HSK 1
bright, clear, to understand
míng
A combination of sun 日 and moon 月
Both sun and moon shine bright.  
HSK 1
moon, month
yuè
The radical 月 means moon or month. (The hanzi for meat/flesh 肉 as a radical is typically simplified to this 月)
Image of an ascending moon  
HSK 1
a period of time, phase

Left: image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing) 其, that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically [thus used in period 期] to separate the corn from the husk), right: moon/month 月
Grain scoops and the moon are only seen: periodically.  
HSK 2
Moon, cloudy, shady, rearside, Yin of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)
yīn
Left: hill 阝(If this radical: 阝is at the left of a character it means 'hill', otherwise it means 'village'), right: moon 月
The hill is on its "moon-side" shady, thus the: Yin.  
HSK 4
to guess, assume, conjecture
cāi
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: green/blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
When a wild animal appears like a plant in the moonshine, one only can guess (what it is).  
HSK 4
key
yào, yuè
Left: metal 钅(=金), right: moon 月 (here: image of a key, where the 3 horizontal lines are coding bits)
He is made of metal and has a coding: the key.  
HSK 5
government, morning, audience, pilgrimage
cháo, zhāo
Left: sunrise (The sun 日 rises between plants 艹.) [Sunset is: 莫], right: moon 月
At sunrise, when the moon is still there, it is the morning [zhāo] and I make a pilgrimage to the government [cháo].  
HSK 5
clear, bright, optimistic
lǎng
Left: variation of good 良, right: moon 月
The good old moon is clear and optimistic.  
HSK 6
tyrant, hegemon, to rule by force, to usurp

Top: rain 雨, below: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals have a skin 口 of leather; but here: animals in general.), moon 月
He controls the rain, the animals and the moon: The tyrant!  
HSK 6
oath, pledge, union, to ally, league
méng
Top: bright/clear 明 (sun 日, moon 月), below: bowl/plate 皿
On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge.  
HSK 6
to gnaw, to nibble, to bite
kěn
Left: mouth 口, right: to agree 肯 (Stop 止 that body 月 if you agree.)
The mouth stops only, when from the body (everything) is: gnawed.  
no HSK
shade
yìn
Top: grass 艹, bottom: moon, rearside, Yin 阴 (The hill 阝is on its "moon-side" 月 shady, thus the: Yin)
Only grass can grow at the "moon"-side of the hill: in the shade.  
no HSK
marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
suǐ
Left: skeleton 骨, right: 遀 (movement 辶, part of lazy 惰 [I feel 忄, that the left 左 [half] of my body 月 is lazy])
The skeleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow.  
no HSK
hazy, deceive, indistinct
méng
Left: moon, body 月, right: to deceive, cheat 蒙 (Under the plants 艹 and under the cover 冖 there shall be a/one 一 pig 豕? You deceiver!)
The moon light can be deceiving, because it hazy.  
no HSK
hazy moonlight, hazy, unclear
lóng
Left: body 月, right: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a dragon ノ)
His body appeared like a dragon in the hazy moonlight.  
no HSK
shed, canopy, shack
péng
Left: tree 木, right: friends 朋 (Two bodies 月/肉 next to each other are friends.)
This tree will be within two months: a shed.  
no HSK
new moon, beginning, first day of lunar month
shuò
Left: disobedient 屰 (A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked is disobedient.), right: moon 月
If the 'disobedient' moon does not shine, it is new moon.  
婿
no HSK
son-in-law

Left: woman 女, right: 胥 (var. of correct/proper 正, body 月)
The woman wants a "proper body" as son-in-law.  

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