春

See also 萅

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

There are minor differences in where the list stroke of the top component (top-left to bottom-right diagonal) starts – on the second horizontal stroke or on the third.

Han character

春 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大日 (QKA), four-corner 5060₃, composition ⿱𡗗日)

1. spring (season)
2. wanton

Derived characters

• 蠢椿蝽堾

References

• 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

• 奉

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Cantonese

Hanzi

春 (Yale cheun1)

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Japanese

Noun

春 (hiragana はる, romaji haru)

1. (season) spring

Kanji

春 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅん (shun)
• Kun: はる (haru)

Synonyms

• 春季 (しゅんき, shunki): spring
• 春期 (しゅんき, shunki): spring

Compounds

• 小春 (こはる, koharu): early autumn, Indian summer
• 小春日和 (こはるびより, koharubiyori): early autumn, Indian summer
• 常春 (とこはる, tokoharu): everlasting spring
• 初春 (はつはる, hatsuharu, しょしゅん, shoshun): early spring, New Year
• 春秋 (しゅんじゅう, shunshū): spring and autumn, months and years, Chronicles of Lu
• 春秋戦国 (しゅんじゅうせんごく, shunjuusengoku): Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China
• 春一番 (はるいちばん: haruichiban): first storm of spring
• 春風 (はるかぜ, harukaze): spring breeze
• 春霞 (はるがすみ, harugasumi) springtime haze
• 春着 (はるぎ, harugi): springwear, New Year's clothes
• 春蚕 (はるご, harugo): spring breed of silkworms
• 春先 (はるさき, harusaki): beginning of spring
• 春雨 (はるさめ, harusame): spring rain, Japanese vermicelli
• 春場所 (はるばしょ, harubasho): the spring sumo tournament in Osaka
• 春繭 (はるまゆ, harumayu): the spring cocoon crop
• 春休み (はるやすみ, haruyasumi): spring break
• 来春 (らいしゅん, raishun): next spring
• 翌春 (よくしゅん, yokushun): next spring
• 春分 (しゅんぶん, shunbun) spring equinox, vernal equinox

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Korean

Hanja

春 (hangeul 춘, revised chun, McCune-Reischauer ch'un, Yale chwun)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

春 (pinyin chūn (chun1), Wade-Giles ch'un¹)

Compounds

• 春冰
• 春饼
• 春播
• 春蚕
• 春潮
• 春绸
• 春肥
• 春分
• 春分点
• 春风
• 春风得意
• 春风化雨
• 春风满面
• 春耕
• 春宫
• 春灌
• 春光
• 春寒
• 春寒料峭
• 春旱
• 春华秋实
• 春化
• 春画, 春画儿
• 春荒
• 春晖
• 春季 (chūnjì)
• 春假
• 春节
• 春景
• 春卷, 春卷儿
• 春困秋乏
• 春兰
• 春兰秋菊
• 春雷
• 春联, 春联儿
• 春令
• 春麦
• 春满人间
• 春忙
• 春梦
• 春牛
• 春情
• 春秋
• 春秋衫
• 春日
• 春色
• 春上
• 春试
• 春笋
• 春天 (chūntiān)
• 春瘟
• 春捂秋冻
• 春宵
• 春小麦
• 春心
• 春汛
• 春药
• 春意
• 春蚓秋蛇
• 春游
• 春雨
• 春运
• 春种
• 春装

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Vietnamese

Han character

春 (xuân)