| 月 yuè |
| moon |
| 月亮 yuè liàng |
| 九月 jiǔ yuè | |
Graphically, it is a cresent, which mostly appears at night. Hence, it indicates 夕, evening, night. In oracle bone adn bronze inscriptions, it was interchangeable with 夕. Since small seal characters, their meaning began to diverge from one another . |