正月 (Zhēng yuè): first month of the lunar calendar

正月

Zhēng yuè

first month of the lunar calendar

HSK 6Mythic

What does 正月 mean?

正月 (pinyin: Zhēng yuè) means first month of the lunar calendar. It belongs to the official HSK 6 vocabulary (mastery), among the most frequent words of everyday Chinese.

Example with 正月

正月zhēng yuè 里lǐ，人rén们men互相hù xiāng 拜年bài nián。

During the first lunar month, people pay New Year visits to each other.

Character families

Every HSK 1–4 word containing 正 · Every HSK 1–4 word containing 月

The characters of 正月

正	zhēng	exactly, just; in the process of (HSK 5)
月	yuè	month (HSK 1)

Related HSK 6 words

谢绝	xiè jué	politely decline, refuse
恍然大悟	huǎng rán dà wù	suddenly realize, dawn on someone
哺乳	bǔ rǔ	to breastfeed, nurse
把关	bǎ guān	to check, to control
怠慢	dài màn	to neglect, to be inattentive to
慈祥	cí xiáng	kindly, benign
归纳	guī nà	summarize, generalize
姑且	gū qiě	for the time being, tentatively

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