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来月

らいげつ

next month

Mnemonic

The crop not yet in, sat on the moon you could ski down the light of. The same らい as 来年: one more turn of it and you stop being a school pupil for good: らいげつ.

Worth knowing

月 reads げつ here, not つき as in 毎月 まいつき. Same 来 as 来年 らいねん.

Built from

come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.
moon, month
A crescent with lines drawn across it. Squeezed onto the left of a word about the body it stands for flesh instead.

Words sharing these kanji

to come to be able to do, to be good at next year to come around, to come along future originally, essentially to bring over, to bring along occurrence, incident since one's future, in the future every month moon

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