Jingjok
Monday is the moon's day
wan-jan
Thai day names are planets, the same seven that name the days in many European languages. วันอาทิตย์ is the day of the sun, like Sunday. วันจันทร์ is the moon's day, like Monday or French lundi. อังคาร is Mars (mardi), พุธ Mercury (mercredi), พฤหัส Jupiter (jeudi), ศุกร์ Venus (vendredi) and เสาร์ Saturn, as in Saturday. The names came to Thai from Sanskrit through Indian astrology, which shares its seven-planet week with the ancient Mediterranean world. That's why the spellings look strange: the ทร์ in จันทร์ and the ร์ in ศุกร์ are silent letters carried over from Sanskrit. Once you know the planets, you'll spot them elsewhere: พระจันทร์ is the moon in the sky, and พระอาทิตย์ the sun.
Try this today
Tonight, look at the moon and say พระจันทร์, then say what day it is: วันนี้วัน….
The words that carry it
Learn this in “Time and days” →
Your first 90 days of Thai
Culture cards in Jingjok are tied to the words that carry them, each ending in one thing to try today.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
- WEEKS 7–12 · RUN YOUR LIFEPharmacy, bank, SIM and apps, how you feel, and a weekend away, all in Thai.
The first week is free.