Moon in Chinese (Mandarin): 月亮 (yuèliang)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 月亮

• 月

  Moon, and also month. It began as a drawing of a crescent moon.

  4 strokes

• 亮

  Bright.

  9 strokes

Say 亮 short and light: yuè-liang. 月 also means month: 一月 (yīyuè) is January.

More examples with 月亮

• 今天的月亮很亮。

  Jīntiān de yuèliang hěn liàng.

  The moon is very bright today.

• 月亮在天上。

  Yuèliang zài tiān shang.

  The moon is in the sky.

How to write 月亮 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.