Jisho

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春

9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day 日
Parts:
一 二 人 大 日
Variants:
旾
springtime, spring (season)
Kun:
はる
On:
シュン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
579 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 春秋 【シュンジュウ】 spring and autumn, spring and fall, years, age, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Chronicles of Lu, Chunqiu, Ch'un Ch'iu
  • 春季 【シュンキ】 spring season
  • 昨春 【サクシュン】 last spring, the spring of last year
  • 売春 【バイシュン】 prostitution

Kun reading compounds

  • 春 【はる】 spring, springtime, New Year, prime (of life), height (of one's prosperity), heyday, adolescence, puberty, sexuality, sexual desire
  • 春秋 【しゅんじゅう】 spring and autumn, spring and fall, years, age, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Chronicles of Lu, Chunqiu, Ch'un Ch'iu
  • 小春 【こはる】 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November), late autumn, late fall
  • 毎春 【まいしゅん】 every spring

Readings

Japanese names:
あずま、 かす、 すの、 ひ、 わら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chun1
Korean:
chun

Spanish

  • primavera
  • comienzo del año
  • tiempos de juventud

Portuguese

  • primaveril
  • primavera (estação)

French

  • printemps
91 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
158 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
141 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
461 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2122 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
162 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
188 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
963 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.20 Japanese for Busy People
460 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
468 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
96 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
971 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3184 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1644 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2232 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1582 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13844 Morohashi
2576 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2453 New Nelson (John Haig)
1568 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1690 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
179 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1478 2001 Kanji
4c5.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
4-9-2 SKIP code
5060.3 Four corner code
1-29-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6625 Unicode hex code

窮

15 strokes
Radical:
cave 穴
Parts:
儿 宀 弓 穴 身
Variants:
竆
hard up, destitute, suffer, perplexed, cornered
Kun:
きわ.める、 きわ.まる、 きわ.まり、 きわ.み
On:
キュウ、 キョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1756 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窮屈 【キュウクツ】 narrow, tight, cramped, formal, stiff, strict, ceremonious, rigid, constrained, uncomfortable, tight (e.g. finances)
  • 究極 【キュウキョク】 ultimate, final, last, eventual
  • 無窮 【ムキュウ】 eternity, infinitude, immortality
  • 天壌無窮 【テンジョウムキュウ】 as eternal as heaven and earth

Kun reading compounds

  • 極める 【きわめる】 to carry to extremes, to go to the end of something, to reach the limits of something, to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc), to be extremely (e.g. busy), to exhaust completely, to have nothing left (e.g. to say)
  • 極まる 【きわまる】 to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled
  • 極まり 【きわまり】 extremity, end, bound, limit
  • 極まりない 【きわまりない】 extremely, in the extreme, knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness), unparalleled, boundless (e.g. universe, ocean), limitless
  • 極み 【きわみ】 height, acme, extremity, peak, end, limit
  • 窮みなき 【きわみなき】 without limit, endless

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiong2
Korean:
gung

Spanish

  • final
  • extremo
  • finalizar
  • acabar
  • llevar al extremo
  • llevar a cabo

Portuguese

  • endurecer
  • destituído
  • sofrer
  • criar obstáculos
  • encurralar

French

  • extrêmement
  • indigent
  • fauché
  • souffrir
  • perplexe
  • acculé
1152 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1821 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3337 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1259 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1598 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2573 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
897 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
919 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1675 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1457 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2983 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1525 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2078 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1338 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25593 Morohashi
2358 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4212 New Nelson (John Haig)
1326 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1424 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1787 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
752 2001 Kanji
3m12.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-12 SKIP code
2-5-10 SKIP code
3022.7 Four corner code
1-21-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7aae Unicode hex code