Moon in Chinese
the moon · HSK 3
月亮
- 月 month
- 亮 bright
Counted with 个: 一个月亮
今晚的月亮又大又圆。 The moon is big and round tonight.
Other ways to say moon
More words with 月 or 亮
How do you say moon in Chinese?
Moon in Chinese is 月亮 (yuè liang). You can also say 月球 (yuè qiú), 月 (yuè).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.