春
春 — chun
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 봄 춘
- Romanization
- chun
- English
- spring; wanton
- Mandarin
- chūn
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- はる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #579 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 日 (72, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6625
How 春 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 春 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 屯, 日.
Korean example words with 春
- 양춘陽春 Korean gloss: 따뜻한 봄
- 춘계春季 Korean gloss: 봄의 시기
- 춘기春期 Korean gloss: 봄의 시기
- 춘기春氣 Korean gloss: 봄의 기운
- 춘소春宵 Korean gloss: 봄철의 밤
- 춘정春情 Korean gloss: 봄의 정취
- 춘경春景 Korean gloss: 봄철의 경치
- 춘천春天 Korean gloss: 봄철의 하늘
- 개춘開春 Korean gloss: 봄철이 시작됨
- 춘화春花 Korean gloss: 봄에 피는 꽃
- 개춘改春 Korean gloss: 다시 돌아온 봄
- 춘설春雪 Korean gloss: 봄철에 오는 눈
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 春
- 春はる spring; springtime; New Year
- 今春こんしゅん this spring; spring this year
- 春闘しゅんとう spring labor offensive; annual spring wage bargaining round
- 来春らいしゅん next spring
- 青春せいしゅん youth; adolescence; springtime of life
- 昨春さくしゅん last spring; the spring of last year
- 売春ばいしゅん prostitution
- 春秋しゅんじゅう spring and autumn; spring and fall; years
- 春場所はるばしょ Spring Tournament (held in Osaka in March)
- 新春しんしゅん New Year
- 春季しゅんき spring season
- 春先はるさき beginning of spring
Characters sharing the phonetic 春
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “춘”
Other hanja with radical 日
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences