| 52 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 88 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 82 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 580 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 58 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 163 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 148 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1161 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 461 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 469 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 97 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 402 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2619 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1339 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1815 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 302 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5720 | Morohashi |
| 2113 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1120 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 296 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 317 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 188 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
659 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 夏 【カ】 Xia dynasty (of China; c. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological), Hsia dynasty
- 夏季 【カキ】 summer season
- 初夏 【ショカ】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 盛夏 【セイカ】 midsummer, height of summer
- 夏 【ゲ】 summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)
- 夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
- 一夏 【イチゲ】 one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
- 半夏 【ハンゲ】 crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
Kun reading compounds
- 夏 【なつ】 summer
- 夏季 【かき】 summer season
- 初夏 【しょか】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
- 常夏 【とこなつ】 everlasting summer
Readings
- Korean:
- ha
Spanish
- verano
Portuguese
- verão
French
- été
| 3167 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4i7.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-8 | SKIP code |
| 2-7-3 | SKIP code |
| 1024.7 | Four corner code |
| 1040.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-18-38 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 590f | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
1090 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 冬季 【トウキ】 (season of) winter
- 冬期 【トウキ】 winter, wintertime, winter term
- 越冬 【エットウ】 passing the winter, hibernation
- 春夏秋冬 【シュンカシュウトウ】 spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter, the four seasons
Kun reading compounds
- 冬 【ふゆ】 winter
- 冬場 【ふゆば】 wintertime, winter season
- 初冬 【しょとう】 early winter, tenth month of the lunar calendar
- 毎冬 【まいふゆ】 every winter
Readings
- Korean:
- dong
Spanish
- invierno
Portuguese
- Inverno
French
- hiver
| 120 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 199 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 182 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 903 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1161 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 165 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 125 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 161 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 3.8 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 459 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 467 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 99 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 399 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2679 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1365 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1851 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 434 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1610X | Morohashi |
| 2157 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 410 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 427 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 456 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 112 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2540 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4i2.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 4-5-1 | SKIP code |
| 2730.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 51ac | Unicode hex code |