臘 — 19 strokes / Radical「月」
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- On
- ロウろう · rō
- Kun
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- Meaning
- the twelfth lunar month
Stroke order
Origin
Flesh 月 with 巤 as phonetic: the year-end rite of offering to the gods; by extension, the twelfth month.
Compounds
- 臘月ろうげつ
the twelfth month
- 臘八ろうはち
the eighth of the twelfth month
Example
臘月に入って寒さが増す。
The twelfth month comes in and the cold deepens.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
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