正月 (zhēngyuè) means First month of the lunar new year. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
正月 十五要吃元宵。
Zhēngyuè shíwǔ yào chī yuánxiāo.
On the fifteenth of the first lunar month one eats sweet dumplings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正月
正月 是一年中最热闹的月份。
Zhēngyuè shì yì nián zhōng zuì rènao de yuèfèn.
The first lunar month is the liveliest of the year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正月
春节是农历 正月 初一。
Chūnjié shì nónglì zhēngyuè chūyī.
The Spring Festival falls on the first day of the first lunar month.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 农历
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How is 正月 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 正月 (zhēngyuè, "First month of the lunar new year"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 正月 an HSK word?
Yes — 正月 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 正月?
The dictionary page for 正月 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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