chūn
spring
Original form of 春. Depicts the season when the sun (日) comes out and plants (艹, 屯) grow. 屯 also represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+8405 |
Shuowen | “萅，推也。从艸，从日，艸，春時生也，屯聲。” |
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