月
月 (月, X6708) is Unicode character, KanjiLiberal, CJK [2].
Glyph 月 (X6708) [2] is easy go confuse with
Glyph ⽉ (X2F49) [3].
None of these glyphs (nor characters) are allowed in technical language Tarja.
In Japanese, 月 may mean Moon or month.
In Japanese, 月 may sound つき, tsuki or
がつ, gatsu.
Character and glyph 月 may have also other meanings and other pronunciations dependently on the context.
Confusion
Some glyphs cause confusions. These confusions make difficult learning of Japanese.
Even a native Japanese speaker, looking at characters
⽉ and 月, is unlikely to guess:
Which of them is ⽉ X2F49 [3]?
Which of them is 月 X6708 [2]?
These glyphs and characters are not allowed in technical language Tarja; it is Japanese-based slang with excluded ambiguous glyphs (and corresponding characters).
At the translation of 月 from Japanese to Tarja, words X6708 or month (がつ, gatsu) or moon ( つき, tsuki) can be used dependently on the context.
In sci-fi «Tartaria», the standard default font «Uniglif» is mentioned; in that font, all the 2-byte and 3-byte characters have different glyphs, and each glyph has unique encoding. With Uniglif, there is no confusion mentioned above. (The Uniglif is developed in order to stop spreading of Tarja and save the natural Chinese and Japanese languages from vulgarization with ascii transliterations. The Uniglif happens to be util and useful, but it does not stop the penetration of ascii to languages that use Kanjis.)
In the real life, the apparent sabotage of the font designers is observed.
To year 2026, at various operational systems, in the default font, many popular glyphs still have no unique Unicode number reserved.
This sabotage pushes a researcher to use Tarja instead of Japanese for technical and educational texts.
Examples
The most usual cases seem to be the followings:
Names of all 7 days of a week are:
| Key | Kanji | Hiragana | Romanji | English | meaning/mnenonic |
| 月 | 月曜日 | げつようび | getsuyoubi | Monday | Beginning |
| 火 | 火曜日 | かようび | kayoubi | Tuesday | Fire |
| 水 | 水曜日 | すいようび | Suiyoubi | Wednesday | Water |
| 木 | 木曜日 | もくようび | mokuyoubi | Thursday | Tree |
| 金 | 金曜日 | きんようび | kinyoubi | Friday | Gold |
| 土 | 土曜日 | どようび | doyoubi | Saturday | Ground |
| 日 | 日曜日 | にちようび | nichiyoubi | Sunday | Enjoy, relax |
In the last line of the table, character X65E5 日 appears twice, at the beginning and at the end of word 日曜日.
日本語でも「（惑星）の月」という呼び方で、月にかぎらず、各惑星等の衛星全般を指すこともある。
[4]
In Japanese, the term "(planetary) moon" is sometimes used, referring not only to the Moon but to all satellites of planets and other celestial bodies.
Glyph 明 may mean light, bright, light, brilliant; clear and can be pronounced as
メイ, ミョウ, ミン,ベイ, ボウ, あかり, あかるい, あかるむ, あからむ, あきらか, あける, あく, あくる, あかす, ひかり, akari,
明 looks as combination of two glyphs 日月; they may refer to Sun and Moon.
Jisho
つき 月
Noun 1. Moon
うちゅうせん は つき を まわ る きどう はずれ ている。
宇宙船は 月を まわ 回る 軌道を 外れている。
The spaceship is out of orbit around the moon.
Noun
2. month
かれ は つき に３０ まん えん かせ ぐ。
He earns 300,000 yen a month.
Noun
3. moonlight
Noun
4. (a) moon; natural satellite See also 衛星
Noun 1. Monday Abbreviation, See also 月曜
Warning
The interpretation suggested is based mainly on the literature cited and may require a correction by a native Japanese speaker.
References
- ↑ https://www.himekuricalendar.com/month-calendar-2026-03 日めくり！カレンダー.com [ トップページ ] 今日は令和８年3月14日 (土曜日) 友引 このカレンダーは、2026年3月のカレンダーです。
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=6708 月 // 6708 // CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6708 // Han Script // confuse: ⽉ .. (kDefinition) moon; month; Kangxi radical .. (kJapanese) ゲツ|ガツ|ガチ|つき ..
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2F49 ⽉ // 2F49 // KANGXI RADICAL MOON // Han Script // confuse: 月 .. Confusable_MA 月 <U+6708>
- ↑ https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/衛星 衛星（えいせい、英語: natural satellite）は、惑星や準惑星・小惑星の周りを公転する天然の天体。ただし、惑星の環などを構成する氷や岩石などの小天体は、普通は衛星とは呼ばれない。..
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/月 [[月\\（つき、英: Moon、羅: Luna、独: Mond、仏: Lune）は、地球で唯一の安定的に存在する[[天\\然の衛星である（地球のその他の衛星については、「月以外の地球の衛星」を参照）。