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Kanji Detail for 旬 - "season, ten-day period, decade"

旬

  • Meaning

    旬 means "season, ten-day period, decade."

    1. Season - The time when fish, vegetables, etc. taste best.

    2. Ten days - A period of ten days within a month, such as early or late.

    3. Ten years - A decade.

    4. Throughout - To spread everywhere; to be full.

  • Words using 旬

    • 下旬 げじゅん Listen last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month
    • 中旬 ちゅうじゅん Listen middle ten days of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month
    • 上旬 じょうじゅん Listen first third of a month; first ten days of a month
    • 初旬 しょじゅん Listen first 10 days of the month

  • Tattoo check: 旬

    • Verified meaning: season, ten-day period, decade
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しゅん, じゅん, しゅんじ, とき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 旬

    Given names 旬(じゅん)Listen 旬(とき)Listen 旬(ひとし)Listen

    Surnames 旬(しゅん)Listen 旬(しゅんじ)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    decameron; ten-day period; season (for specific products)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    ten-day period; period of time

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    ten days; ten years; full period

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    ten-day period; period of time

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Ten days. A month has three 旬. The first to tenth is the first 旬. Eleventh to twentieth is the middle 旬. Twenty-first to month end is the last 旬. There is a folk saying that one year on earth is one day in heaven, so in birthday celebrations, one decade is called one 旬. Such as 七旬, 八旬, meaning seventy or eighty years old. | Throughout. From "Book of Odes": "來旬來宣" means to travel everywhere to proclaim virtue.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    jun(ジュン) ジュン

    shun(シュン) シュン

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    6 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    season ten-day period decade ten years spread throughout in season seasonal ripe prime

Sentences including 旬

  • Are oysters in season now?

  • Watermelons are in season now.

  • Strawberries are in season now.

  • Strawberries are in season now.

  • Seasonal food is delicious and inexpensive.

  • I'm expecting my baby in the middle of January.

  • The fruiting season for the cherry trees is from June to July.

  • I'm expecting my baby in the middle of January.

  • Matsutake mushrooms are in season now so they are cheap.

  • Blueberries are now in season.

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