🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

双月刊

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shuāng yuè kān

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bimonthly/baɪˈmʌnθ.li/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这本杂志是双月刊。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Occurring every two months.

    "The magazine is published bimonthly, with issues released in January, March, May, and so on."
As noun
  1. 1

    A publication that is issued every two months.

    "I subscribed to a bimonthly that focuses on environmental issues."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix 'bi-' (meaning two or twice) combined with 'monthly', appearing in the mid-19th century. It historically suffers from Janus-faced ambiguity, meaning both occurring once every two months and occurring twice a month (semi-monthly), though the former is its predominant contemporary usage.

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