月刊

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 月刊, read げっかん, denotes a once-a-month publication schedule or a periodical issued on that schedule.
• Basic usage: It marks a monthly publishing schedule and identifies a magazine that arrives on a fixed day each month.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Publication frequency and the publication itself
  • It can adverbially describe monthly publication or name a periodical issued once a month.