春

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春 U+6625, 春
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6625
← 昤
[U+6624]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 昦 →
[U+6626]
See also: 萅

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
9 strokes
Stroke order
春-order.gif

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

See also[edit]

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 春

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 春
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
春-oracle.svg 春-bronze.svg 春-silk.svg 春-bigseal.svg 春-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
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.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 春
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰuən²¹/
/t͡sʰuən²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuən²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fʰẽ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰyn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuen⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰun³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰuən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sʰən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷen³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰoŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰyʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰyan¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰyn³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰyn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰun⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃʰun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøn⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐn⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰyn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰun⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰuŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sun²³/
Rime
Character 春
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌脣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰʷin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰwin/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiuĕn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 春
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chūn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰun/
English springtime

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 春
Reading # 1/1
No. 12573
Phonetic
component		 屯
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 春
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjun/
Notes 說文從艸從日屯聲，實屯繁化轉註字

Definitions[edit]

春

  1. spring (season)
    春天  ―  chūntiān  ―  spring
  2. year; age
  3. spring scenery
  4. vitality; liveliness; energy; life
  5. lust; lustfulness; passion; sexual desire
    思春期  ―  sīchūnqī  ―  puberty
  6. a type of liquor which is brewed from spring to winter

See also[edit]

Seasons in Chinese · 四季 (sìjì) (layout · text)
春 (“spring”) 夏 (xià, “summer”) 秋 (qiū, “fall; autumn”) 冬 (dōng, “winter”)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 春

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

春

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. spring (season)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Kanji in this term
春
はる
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun[edit]

春 (hiragana はる, rōmaji haru)

  1. spring (season)

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Seasons in Japanese · 四 (し)季 (き) (shiki) (layout · text)
春 (はる) (haru, “spring”) 夏 (なつ) (natsu, “summer”) 秋 (あき) (aki, “fall; autumn”) 冬 (ふゆ) (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]

春 (xoan, xuân)

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References[edit]

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