月子

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Chinese

moon; month
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
simp. and trad.
(月子)
anagram 子月

Pronunciation


Noun

月子

  1. the month following childbirth, during which the mother goes through the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in; puerperium
  2. time of childbirth
  3. (dialectal) moon

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
つき
Grade: 1

Grade: 1

Proper noun

(つき)() (Tsukiko

  1. a female given name