秋

See also 秌

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

秋 (radical 115 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火 (HDF), four-corner 2998₀, composition ⿰禾火)

1. autumn, fall
2. year

Derived characters

• 鍬

See also

• 秌

References

• KangXi: page 850, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24940
• Dae Jaweon: page 1273, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2595, character 5
• Unihan data for U+79CB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

秋 (jyutping cau1, Yale chau1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

秋 (POJ tshiu, Guangdong ts'iu¹; ts'ieu¹ [Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim qiu1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

秋 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: あき (aki), とき (toki)

Noun

秋 (hiragana あき, romaji aki)

1. (season) autumn, fall

Synonyms

• 秋季 (しゅうき, shūki)
• 秋期 (しゅうき, shūki)

Compounds

• 初秋 (しょしゅう, shoshū): beginning of autumn
• 晩秋 (ばんしゅう, banshū): ending of autumn

See also

• 紅葉 (こうよう, kōyō, “red leaves; autumn colors”)

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Korean

Hanja

秋
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 추 (revised: chu, McCune-Reischauer: ch'u, Yale: chwu)

• Name (hangeul): 가을추 (Yale: kaulchwu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

秋 (pinyin qiū (qiu1), Wade-Giles ch'iu¹)

Compounds

• 秋波
• 秋月

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Vietnamese

Han character

秋 (thu)