Kanji Detail for 旬 - "season, prime, timely"

旬

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
旬 means "season, prime, timely."
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.
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

jun(じゅん)

shun(しゅん)
Kunyomi

amane.ku(あまねく)
Strokes

6 strokes
Radical

日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)
Related Keywords
season seasonal ten days decade period time prime peak optimal ripe fresh timely opportune harvest best perfect mature ready appropriate ideal