本月

Chinese

		roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)	moon; month
simp. and trad. (本月)		本	月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běnyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣˇ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun² jyut⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pún-ngie̍t / pún-ngia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běnyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˇ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běnyuè
    • Wade–Giles: pên³-yüeh⁴
    • Yale: běn-ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beenyueh
    • Palladius: бэньюэ (bɛnʹjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun² jyut⁶
    • Yale: bún yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun² jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun² yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³⁵ jyːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pún-ngie̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: bun^ˋ ngied
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bun³ ngiad⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /pun³¹ ŋi̯et̚⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pún-ngia̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: bun^ˋ ngiad
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bun³ ngiad⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /pun³¹ ŋi̯at̚⁵/

Noun

本月

1. this month

Synonyms

• 這個月/这个月 (zhège yuè)
• 今月 (jīnyuè)

Related terms

• 本週／本周 (běnzhōu, “this week”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
本	月
ほん Grade: 1	げつ Grade: 1
on'yomi	kan'on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hõ̞ŋɡe̞t͡sɨ]

Noun

本(ほん)月(げつ) • (hongetsu) 

1. this month

   Synonym: 今月 (kongetsu)

References

• “本月”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “本月” in Weblio Dictionary.