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    3. 庚申月

    庚申月

    庚こう申しん月づき

    Metal Monkey month

    NTNounHistoryKanji Vocab17 strokes

    こうしんづき

    Noun

    1.
    Metal Monkey month, lunar month that contains a day of the Metal Monkey (essentially every other month) during which it was believed colds were more frequent
    historical term

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    Kanji that make up this word

    庚
    かのえ…(1)
    7th・7th calendar sign
    申
    もう.す・もう.し-・さる…(1)
    have the honor to・sign of the monkey・3-5PM・ninth sign of Chinese zodiac
    月
    つき…(7)
    month・moon
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