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Unicode chart Enclosed CJK Letters and Months}} provides a table listing the characters in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months Unicode block. Hangul and katakana subsets can be listed using an optional parameter.
[a] Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol. Situated in mid-summer (from the point of view of its Northern Hemisphere authors) and including the mid-year solstice, the name of the new month was chosen in homage to the sun. [4]
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.
The unified Achaemenid Empire required a distinctive Iranian calendar, and one was devised in Egyptian tradition, with 12 months of 30 days, each dedicated to a yazata (Eyzad), and four divisions resembling the Semitic week. Four days per month were dedicated to Ahura Mazda and seven were named after the six Amesha Spentas.
A variation with three cubes providing English abbreviations for the twelve months is discussed in a Scientific American column in December 1977. [6] One solution of this variation allows displaying the first three letters of any month and relies on the fact that lower-case letters u and n and also p and d are inverses of each other.
The Twelve Months" is a Czech fairy tale, which was first mentioned by a Czech writer, scholar, physician, lexicographer, canon of the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and a master of the University of Prague in the 14th century - mistr Klaret/Bartoloměj z Chlumce, [1] who mentions the fairy tale as a preaching exemplum.
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From January 1999 there are separate articles about months. For the first few years they seem to be forks of the sections concerned in the year articles. The contents of these sections can better be merged into the month article, after which the month articles can be transcluded in the year articles.