chūn
spring
Phonosemantic compound. 日 and 艹 represent the meaning and 屯 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
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 春
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
gay | ||
spring (season) | ||
youth | ||
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) | ||
puberty |
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。” |
Sources
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