秋

See also: 秌

Translingual

Etymology

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		秋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiū (qiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tshiu
• Min Nan (POJ): chhiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'iu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau¹
    • Yale: chāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tshiu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qiu1
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiu
    • Tâi-lô: tshiu
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiu³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (秋, reconstructed)
Character (秋), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 七由切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰɨu/	/t͡sʰi̯ə̯u/	/t͡sʰiu/	/t͡sʰiu/	/t͡sʰuw/	/t͡sʰĭəu/	/t͡sʰiəu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (秋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
秋								qiū								‹ tshjuw ›								/*tsʰiw/								autumn; crop
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
秋					10537					秋					幽					2					秋					/*sʰɯw/

Compounds

• 秋波
• 秋月

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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

Kanji in this term

秋

あき Grade: 2

kun'yomi

• 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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Vietnamese

Han character

秋 (thu)

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