Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Japanese Months

January: ichigatsu (一月)(いちがつ)

February: nigatsu (二月) (にがつ)

March: sangatsu (三月) (さんがつ)

April: shigatsu (四月) (しがつ)

May: gogatsu (五月) (ごがつ)

June: rokugatsu (六月) (ろくがつ)

July: shichigatsu (七月) (しちがつ)

August: hachigatsu (八月) (はちがつ)

September: kugatsu (九月) (くがつ)

October: juugatsu (十月) (じゅうがつ)

November: juuichigatsu (十一月) (じゅういちがつ)

December: juunigatsu (十二月) (じゅうにがつ)

The months are pretty straightforward. All you have to do is place the number of the month with the counter “gatsu”. So for April it would be the word four or “shi” plus gatsu, which means month. The first parentheses contains the kanji and the second parentheses contains the hiragana.

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