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毎月

まいつき

every month

Mnemonic

The same my まい as 毎日, and the same つき moon you could ski down the light of. It fills, the money goes in the tin, and then it fills again: まいつき.

Worth knowing

Also read まいげつ, but まいつき is the everyday one.

Built from

every
𠂉 slash + 母 mother
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

every day every year next month moon Monday

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