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春

chūn

spring

Phonosemantic compound. 日 and 艹 represent the meaning and 屯 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

屯 sound component

屯  Sound component

tún, zhūn

  

village

日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

Evolution

春 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
春 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
春 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
春 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
春 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

春  

chūn

spring; wanton; spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life

春  

Chūn

surname Chun

春 (旾) 

chūn

old variant of 春[chūn]

Most common words with 春
Freq.
Word
Meaning

春

gay

春天

spring (season)

青春

youth

春节

Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

青春期

puberty

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

蠢 椿 蝽 鰆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰun

tsyhwin

chūn

springtime


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 18.2444% of movies

1486th most common character in movies

921st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6625

Shuowen

“萅，推也。从艸，从日，艸，春時生也，屯聲。”


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