つき
moon
A crescent with a couple of strokes through it. Tonight it is bright enough to read a paper by, and you could ski つき down the light it puts on the water: つき.
Read げつ it is the month, and Monday. Squeezed onto the left of a character it usually stands for flesh instead.
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