春
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Translingual[edit]
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Alternative forms[edit]
There are minor differences in where the last stroke of the top component (top-left to bottom-right diagonal) starts – on the second horizontal stroke or on the third.
Han character[edit]
春 (radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大日 (QKA), four-corner 50603, composition ⿱𡗗日)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 493, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13844
- Dae Jaweon: page 856, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1496, character 10
- Unihan data for U+6625
Chinese[edit]
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春 | |
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| variant forms | 萅 旾 | |
Glyph origin[edit]
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| Shang | Spring and Autumn | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 躉 | *tuːnʔ |
| 窀 | *rduːn, *duːn, *tun |
| 沌 | *donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 盹 | *tuːnʔ, *tjuns |
| 頓 | *tuːns |
| 扽 | *tuːns |
| 黗 | *tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ |
| 吨 | *tʰuːnʔ |
| 屯 | *duːn, *tun |
| 飩 | *duːn |
| 豘 | *duːn |
| 軘 | *duːn |
| 坉 | *duːn |
| 邨 | *duːn, *stʰuːn |
| 忳 | *duːn |
| 芚 | *duːn |
| 庉 | *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 囤 | *duːnʔ |
| 迍 | *tun |
| 杶 | *tʰun |
| 瑃 | *tʰun |
| 椿 | *tʰun |
| 偆 | *tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ |
| 肫 | *tjun |
| 訰 | *tjun, *tjuns |
| 純 | *tjunʔ, *djun |
| 春 | *tʰjun |
| 蠢 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 踳 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 惷 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 蒓 | *djun |
| 賰 | *hljunʔ |
| 鬊 | *hljuns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰjun): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun, “sprout”) + semantic 日 (“sun”).
The character 春 itself is probably a variant of 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun) as they are equivalent for the meaning “spring” in Old Chinese literature.
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
春
- spring (season)
- 春天 ― chūntiān ― spring
- year; age
- spring scenery
- vitality; liveliness; energy; life
- lust; lustfulness; passion; sexual desire
- 思春期 ― sīchūnqī ― puberty
- a type of alcoholic drink which is fermented from spring to winter
See also[edit]
| Seasons in Chinese · 四季 (sìjì, “four seasons”) (layout · text) | |||
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| 春 (“spring”) | 夏 (xià, “summer”) | 秋 (qiū, “fall; autumn”) | 冬 (dōng, “winter”) |
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 春
Etymology 2[edit]
| For pronunciation and definitions of 春 – see 膥 (“egg; testicles”). (This character, 春, is a variant form of 膥.) |
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
春
- spring (season)
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
- 小春 (koharu): early autumn, Indian summer
- 小春日和 (koharubiyori): early autumn, Indian summer
- 常春 (tokoharu): everlasting spring
- 初春 (hatsuharu), 初春 (shoshun): early spring, New Year
- 春菊 (shungiku): garland chrysanthemum
- 春秋 (shunjū): spring and autumn, months and years, Chronicles of Lu
- 春秋戦国 (shunjūsengoku): Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China
- 春一番 (haruichiban): first storm of spring
- 春風 (harukaze): spring breeze
- 春霞 (harugasumi) springtime haze
- 春着 (harugi): springwear, New Year's clothes
- 春蚕 (harugo): spring breed of silkworms
- 春先 (harusaki): beginning of spring
- 春雨 (harusame): spring rain, cellophane noodles
- 春場所 (harubasho): the spring sumo tournament in Osaka
- 春繭 (harumayu): the spring cocoon crop
- 春休み (haruyasumi): spring break
- 来春 (raishun): next spring
- 翌春 (yokushun): next spring
- 春分 (shunbun) spring equinox, vernal equinox
Pronunciation[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 春 |
| はる Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi |
Noun[edit]
- spring (season)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 春めく (harumeku)
See also[edit]
| Seasons in Japanese · 四季 (shiki, “four seasons”) (layout · text) | |||
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| 春 (haru, “spring”) | 夏 (natsu, “summer”) | 秋 (aki, “fall; autumn”) | 冬 (fuyu, “winter”) |
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
春 • (chun) (hangeul 춘, revised chun, McCune–Reischauer ch'un, Yale chwun)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
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