Illustration: A slender crescent moon hangs above the roofline of a quiet Japanese neighbourhood at dusk. On a small apartment balcony, a child watering a planter has stopped mid-pour to point at it. The watering can tips harmlessly into its saucer while a parent follows the child's gaze.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

三み日か月づき

mikazuki

crescent moon

Example sentences

  1. すなわち、月つきが満月まんげつという盛もりを過すぎて衰おとろえ、下弦かげんの月つきとなってしまいには新月しんげつとして消きえてしまうが、また三日月みかづきとして夜空よぞらに復活ふっかつする。

    That is, the moon starts to wane after it passes through the peak called the full moon, then waning moon and finally disappears as a new moon, but it comes back in the night sky as a crescent moon.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. この当時とうじの、いたずら好すきとしての勲章くんしょうが額ひたいの三日月みかづき型がたの傷跡きずあととして後世こうせいまで残のこり続つづける。

    A crescent-shaped scar remained on his forehead as the mark of his mischievous childhood.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 夕方ゆうがたの空そらに細ほそい三日月みかづきが見みえた。

    I could see a thin crescent moon in the evening sky.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 三日月

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ
  • 日sun; dayOnニチ・ジツKunひ
  • 月month; moonOnゲツ・ガツKunつき

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