秋

See also: 秌

Translingual

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 禾 (“grain”) + 火 (“fire”) - burning crops with fire.
In autumn, the Ancient Chinese would burn the fields to kill the locust eggs, in order to prevent them from eating the crops the following year.

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 chāu)

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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)

1. autumn

Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū), from しう (shiu)
• Kun: あき (aki), とき (toki)

Pronunciation

• あ​き (Atamadaka)

Noun

秋 (hiragana あき, romaji aki)

1. autumn, fall (season)

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 (chu)
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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Middle Chinese

Etymology

From Old Chinese 秋 (*tsʰiw)

simpl. and trad.
秋

Han character

秋 (Karlgren-Li tshiə̆u:, Baxter-Sagart tshiuw)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʰiu]

Noun

秋

1. autumn

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Old Chinese

simpl. and trad.
秋

Han character

秋 (*tsʰiw)

Noun

秋

1. autumn

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Vietnamese

Han character

秋 (thu)