夏

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simp. and trad.		夏

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): Originally a walking human figure, representing a "great" man. "Summer" is a later borrowed meaning.

Han character

夏 (radical 35 夊+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一山竹水 (MUHE), four-corner 1024₇, composition ⿱𦣻夂)

1. summer
2. great, grand, big
3. the Xia Dynasty of China
4. a Chinese surname

References

• KangXi: page 245, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5720
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 869, character 10
• Unihan data for U+590F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

夏 (Jyutping haa6, Yale ha6)

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Japanese

Kanji

夏

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. summer

Readings

• Goon: げ (ge)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: なつ (natsu)

Compounds

夏時 (かじ, kaji) 夏朝 (かちょう, Kachō): the Xia Dynasty 夏炉冬扇 (かろとうせん, karotōsen) 夏至 (げし, geshi)

昨夏 (さっか, sakka): last summer 初夏 (しょか, shoka): beginning summer 夏鳥 (なつどり, natsudori) 夏場 (なつば, natsuba)

夏休 (なつやすみ, natsuyasumi) 晩夏 (ばんか, banka): ending summer 立夏 (りっか, rikka) 翌夏 (よくなつ, yokunatsu): next summer

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term

夏

なつ Grade: 2

kun'yomi

• なつ​ (Odaka)

Noun

夏 (hiragana なつ, romaji natsu)

1. summer (season)

Synonyms

• 夏季 (かき, kaki)
• 夏期 (かき, kaki)

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Korean

Hanja

夏 (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha)

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See also

• 春
• 秋
• 冬

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

夏 (Pinyin xià (xia4), Wade-Giles hsia⁴)

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Compounds

• 夏播
• 夏布
• 夏季
• 夏历
• 夏粮
• 夏令
• 夏令时
• 夏令营
• 夏日
• 夏时制
• 夏熟
• 夏天
• 夏衣
• 夏至
• 夏至草
• 夏至点
• 夏至线
• 夏装

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Middle Chinese

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simp. and trad.		夏

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɛ/

Etymology 1

From Old Chinese 夏 (*graʔ-s)

Noun

夏 (Karlgren-Li xɐ‐, Baxter hæH)

1. summer

Etymology 2

From Old Chinese 夏 (*graʔ)

Adjective

夏 (Karlgren-Li xɐ:, Baxter hæX)

1. great
2. (archaic) Pertaining to the Chinese civilization

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Old Chinese

Noun

夏 (*graʔ-s)

1. summer

Adjective

夏 (*graʔ)

1. great
2. (archaic) Pertaining to the Chinese civilization

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Vietnamese

Han character

夏 (hạ, hè)

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