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Kanji Detail for 春 - "spring, new year"

春

  • Meaning

    春 means "spring, new year." Also associated with youth.

    1. Spring - The season of new growth.

    2. Youth - The time of life when one is young.

    3. New Year - The beginning of the year.

    4. Desire - Romantic or sensual feelings.

  • Words using 春

    • 今春 こんしゅん Listen this spring; spring this year
    • 春闘 しゅんとう Listen spring labor offensive; annual spring wage bargaining round
    • 来春 らいしゅん Listen next spring
    • 青春 せいしゅん Listen youth; adolescence; springtime of life
    • 昨春 さくしゅん Listen last spring; the spring of last year
    • 春秋 しゅんじゅう Listen spring and autumn; spring and fall; years
    • 春場所 はるばしょ Listen Spring Tournament (held in Osaka in March)
    • 新春 しんしゅん Listen New Year

  • Four-character idioms with 春

    • 春夏秋冬 しゅんかしゅうとう Listen spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; the four seasons
    • 小春日和 こはるびより Listen Indian summer (around November); mild late autumn weather; mild late fall weather
    • 春宵一刻 しゅんしょういっこく Listen a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold)
    • 春花秋月 しゅんかしゅうげつ Listen spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season
    • 春風駘蕩 しゅんぷうたいとう Listen warm and genial spring weather; genial and balmy

  • Origin of 春

    The old form gathers sprouting plants and 屯, the seed-burst, over 日, the sun: growth pushing up under strengthening light. Spring is pressure from below meeting warmth from above.

    How to remember it: Sprouts 屯 shouldering up into the sun 日 — the season when the ground itself pushes: spring.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 春

    • Verified meaning: spring, new year
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あずま, かず, しゅん, しゅんみん)
    • Also carries these associations: youth

    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 春

    Given names 春(あずま)Listen 春(かず)Listen 春(しゅん)Listen 春(しゅんみん)Listen 春(とき)Listen 春(なごし)Listen 春(はじめ)Listen 春(はる)Listen

    Surnames 春(ちゆん)Listen 春(はるさき)Listen 春(はるじ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    springtime; spring (season)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    spring; wanton

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    old variant of 春[chun1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    springtime; joyful, lustful, wanton

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

    One of the four seasons. From Lichun (February 4 or 5 in the solar calendar) to Lixia (May 6 or 7) is spring. In Chinese custom, the first, second, and third months of the lunar calendar are spring. In Western custom, March, April, and May are spring. | Spring is the first of the four seasons. All things have an appearance of flourishing vitality. Hence, the prime of youth is called 青春. Lively spirits are called 春氣. A doctor curing illness is called 妙手回春 (skillful hands bringing back spring). | A wine name. Tang dynasty people often called wine 春. Such as 玉壼買春 (buying wine in a jade pot). | From "Rites of Zhou": "In mid-spring, command the meeting of men and women." Hence mid-spring was the season for marriage. Thus a woman longing to marry is said to 懷春.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shun(シュン) シュン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    haru(はる) はる

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    spring youth new year age desire passion bloom season renewal

Sentences including 春

  • Many beautiful flowers bloom in spring.

  • These flowers bloom in spring.

  • He entered tokyo university this spring.

  • I feel spring in the air.

  • Spring comes between winter and summer.

  • Spring will soon come.

  • Spring is around the corner.

  • Spring was long coming that year.

  • Spring is the best season to visit kyoto.

  • In spring days are not always warm.

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