春

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.

春 (radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大日 (QKA), four-corner 5060₃, composition ⿱𡗗日)

• 偆, 㖺, 堾, 媋, 𢝣, 湷, 𬌸, 𬯌, 暙, 䐏, 椿, 瑃, 𨕌, 㿤, 睶, 𬓉, 𮄵, 蝽, 賰(䞐), 踳, 𨩃, 䮞(𩨁), 鰆(䲠), 𪂹, 𠝩, 萶, 箺, 䦮, 𩄄, 鬊, 惷, 𣕮, 𭾇, 𪃣, 蠢, 𩯥

Wikidata

• 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

Historical forms of the character 春
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

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.

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.).

春

1. spring (season)

   春天  ―  chūntiān  ―  spring

2. year; age
3. spring scenery
4. vitality; liveliness; energy; life
5. lust; lustfulness; passion; sexual desire

   思春期  ―  sīchūnqī  ―  puberty

6. a type of alcoholic drink which is fermented from spring to winter

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əj (“egg; testicle”) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

春

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) egg; roe
2. (Cantonese, vulgar) testicle
3. (Cantonese, vulgar) goddamn, the hell

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. spring (season)

• Go-on: しゅん (shun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun, Jōyō)
• Kun: はる (haru, 春, Jōyō)

• 小 (こ)春 (はる) (koharu, “early autumn, Indian summer”)
• 小 (こ)春 (はる)日 (び)和 (より) (koharubiyori, “early autumn, Indian summer”)
• 常春 (とこはる) (tokoharu, “everlasting spring”)
• 初春 (はつはる) (hatsuharu), 初 (しょ)春 (しゅん) (shoshun, “early spring, New Year”)
• 春 (しゅん)菊 (ぎく) (shungiku, “garland chrysanthemum”)
• 春 (しゅん)秋 (じゅう) (shunjū, “spring and autumn, months and years, Chronicles of Lu”)
• 春 (しゅん)秋 (じゅう)戦 (せん)国 (ごく) (shunjūsengoku, “Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China”)
• 春 (はる)一番 (いちばん) (haruichiban, “first storm of spring”)
• 春 (はる)風 (かぜ) (harukaze, “spring breeze”)
• 春 (はる)霞 (がすみ) (harugasumi) springtime haze}}
• 春 (はる)着 (ぎ) (harugi, “springwear, New Year's clothes”)
• 春 (はる)蚕 (ご) (harugo, “spring breed of silkworms”)
• 春 (はる)先 (さき) (harusaki, “beginning of spring”)
• 春 (はる)雨 (さめ) (harusame, “spring rain, cellophane noodles”)
• 春 (はる)場 (ば)所 (しょ) (harubasho, “the spring sumo tournament in Osaka”)
• 春 (はる)繭 (まゆ) (harumayu, “the spring cocoon crop”)
• 春 (はる)休 (やす)み (haruyasumi, “spring break”)
• 来 (らい)春 (しゅん) (raishun, “next spring”)
• 翌 (よく)春 (しゅん) (yokushun, “next spring”)
• 春 (しゅん)分 (ぶん) (shunbun, “spring equinox, vernal equinox”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) は​る [háꜜrù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

春 (hiragana はる, rōmaji haru)

1. spring (season)

• 春 (しゅん)季 (き) (shunki): spring
• 春 (しゅん)期 (き) (shunki): spring

• 春 (はる)めく (harumeku)

春 • (chun) (hangeul 춘, revised chun, McCune–Reischauer ch'un, Yale chwun)

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春: Hán Việt readings: xuân (樞(xu)倫(luân)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4]
春: Nôm readings: xuân[1][2][5][4][6][7], xoan[1][2][3][4][7]

1. Hán tự form of xuân (“spring (season)”).