# 腊月 (Làyuè)

In Mandarin Chinese, 腊月 (Làyuè) means “twelfth lunar month”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: twelfth lunar month
- Pinyin: Làyuè (la4 yue4)
- Traditional: 臘月
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 到了腊月，天气就变得很冷。
  Dào le làyuè, tiānqì jiù biàn de hěn lěng.
  It gets very cold in the twelfth lunar month.

## Characters

- 腊 (là): the 12th lunar month
- [月](https://hanziro.com/word/yue-month/) (yuè): month; moon

https://hanziro.com/word/la-yue-twelfth-lunar-month/

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