如月

Proper noun

 * 1)  The second month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Etymology 1
Likely from. Attested in a reading annotation to 春分 ("vernal equinox") in the  of 720 ; depending on the manuscript it appears with the unvoiced (or no rendaku) reading.

The alternative spelling (and also ) reflects the derivation from  +  +, first proposed by a poet  , in his work Ōgishō, 1144.

Some sources also note that this spelling only arose in the late and propose alternative hypotheses including:
 * Compound of +  +, from the sense of one's mood improving as winter comes to a close.
 * Compound of +  +, from the sense of plants putting forth new shoots.
 * suggests that this may ultimately be cognate with modern 🇨🇬. Compare obsolete or dialectal form, and 🇨🇬. In this hypothesis, the in the 🇨🇬 is potentially problematic, but Unger views the final  as a good match for the final  in the 🇨🇬. However this theory is unreasonable for the following reasons:
 * The 2nd month of East Asian lunar calendar is when the vernal equinox occurs, or the middle month of spring, which is not considered winter.
 * Vowel of Koreanic is consistently transcribed in  in Japanese, until its pronunciation changed to [jʌ̹] as the standard Korean in the early modern times (cf., ,  ).

The spelling 如月 itself is borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  the second month of the lunar calendar
 * 2)  February

Etymology 2
. Appears to be coined in Japan of -derived roots, as a compound of.

First cited with this reading to a text from 1559.

Noun

 * 1)  the second month of the lunar calendar