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下旬 (gejun) Japanese meaning: last third of a month | Kotomora
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The meeting is scheduled for the last third of next month.
The deadline for the report is the end of this month.
Kanji 旬 decameron, ten-day period, season (for specific products) Opposites 上旬 refers to the first ten days of a month, the opposite end from 下旬, which covers the last third.
初旬 refers to the first ten days of a month, while 下旬 refers to the last part of the month, making them opposite ends of the same calendar division.
下旬 refers to the last part of a month (21st onward), whereas 中旬 refers to the middle ten days (11th–20th).
Etymology Compound of 下 (lower, latter) and 旬 (ten-day period). The character 旬 originally referred to a 10-day cycle in the traditional calendar, and 下旬 came to mean the last such period of a month.
