春
See also: 萅
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Translingual
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Alternative forms
There are minor differences in where the last stroke of the top component (top-left to bottom-right diagonal) starts – on the second horizontal stroke or on the third.
Han character
春 (radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大日 (QKA), four-corner 50603, composition ⿱𡗗日)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 493, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13844
- Dae Jaweon: page 856, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1496, character 10
- Unihan data for U+6625
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 春 | ||||
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| Shang | Spring and Autumn | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| 躉 | *tuːnʔ |
| 窀 | *rduːn, *duːn, *tun |
| 沌 | *donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 盹 | *tuːnʔ, *tjuns |
| 頓 | *tuːns |
| 扽 | *tuːns |
| 黗 | *tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ |
| 吨 | *tʰuːnʔ |
| 屯 | *duːn, *tun |
| 飩 | *duːn |
| 豘 | *duːn |
| 軘 | *duːn |
| 坉 | *duːn |
| 邨 | *duːn, *stʰuːn |
| 忳 | *duːn |
| 芚 | *duːn |
| 庉 | *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 囤 | *duːnʔ |
| 迍 | *tun |
| 杶 | *tʰun |
| 瑃 | *tʰun |
| 椿 | *tʰun |
| 偆 | *tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ |
| 肫 | *tjun |
| 訰 | *tjun, *tjuns |
| 純 | *tjunʔ, *djun |
| 春 | *tʰjun |
| 蠢 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 踳 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 惷 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 蒓 | *djun |
| 賰 | *hljunʔ |
| 鬊 | *hljuns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰjun) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun, “sprout”) + semantic 日 (“sun”).
The character 春 itself is probably a variant of 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun) as they are equivalent for the meaning “spring” in Old Chinese literature.
Etymology 1
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| variant forms | 萅 旾 | |
Related to 芚 (OC *duːn, “(of plants) to begin to grow”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Khmer ដុះ (doh, “to grow; to germinate; to sprout”), as well as 穿 (OC *kʰljon, *kʰljons, “to bore through”) (ibid.).
Pronunciation
Definitions
春
See also
| Seasons in Chinese · 四季 (sìjì, “four seasons”) (layout · text) | |||
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| 春 (chūn, “spring”) | 夏 (xià, “summer”) | 秋 (qiū, “fall; autumn”) | 冬 (dōng, “winter”) |
Compounds
Derived terms from 春
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Etymology 2
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春 | |
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| variant forms | 膥 | |
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əj (“egg; testicle”) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014).
Pronunciation
Definitions
春
Japanese
Compounds
- 小春 (koharu, “early autumn, Indian summer”)
- 小春日和 (koharubiyori, “early autumn, Indian summer”)
- 常春 (tokoharu, “everlasting spring”)
- 初春 (hatsuharu), 初春 (shoshun, “early spring, New Year”)
- 春菊 (shungiku, “garland chrysanthemum”)
- 春秋 (shunjū, “spring and autumn, months and years, Chronicles of Lu”)
- 春秋戦国 (shunjūsengoku, “Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China”)
- 春一番 (haruichiban, “first storm of spring”)
- 春風 (harukaze, “spring breeze”)
- 春霞 (harugasumi) springtime haze}}
- 春着 (harugi, “springwear, New Year's clothes”)
- 春蚕 (harugo, “spring breed of silkworms”)
- 春先 (harusaki, “beginning of spring”)
- 春雨 (harusame, “spring rain, cellophane noodles”)
- 春場所 (harubasho, “the spring sumo tournament in Osaka”)
- 春繭 (harumayu, “the spring cocoon crop”)
- 春休み (haruyasumi, “spring break”)
- 来春 (raishun, “next spring”)
- 翌春 (yokushun, “next spring”)
- 春分 (shunbun, “spring equinox, vernal equinox”)
Derived terms
- 春めく (harumeku)
Korean
Hanja
春 • (chun) (hangeul 춘, revised chun, McCune–Reischauer ch'un, Yale chwun)
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Vietnamese
Han character
春: Hán Việt readings: xuân (
春: Nôm readings: xuân[1][2][5][4][6][7], xoan[1][2][3][4][7]
References
- Nguyễn (2014).
- Nguyễn et al. (2009).
- Trần (2004).
- Bonet (1899).
- Hồ (1976).
- Génibrel (1898).
- Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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