Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
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

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蝉声 【センセイ】 cicada singing
  • 秋蝉 【アキゼミ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes
  • 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn
  • 寒蝉 【カンゼミ】 cicadas which sing in late autumn

Kun reading compounds

  • 蝉 【せみ】 cicada, locust, small-sized pulley
  • 蝉海老 【せみえび】 blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)
  • 空蝉 【うつせみ】 one's present existence, this mortal frame, this world, this life, temporal things, cast-off cicada shell, cicada
  • 秋の蝉 【あきのせみ】 cicadas that sing when autumn comes, cicadas that sing even in autumn

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chan2
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • cigarra

Portuguese

French

4190 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1774 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
33616 Morohashi
5349 New Nelson (John Haig)
2692 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2731 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-9 SKIP code
1-6-12 SKIP code
5615.6 Four corner code
1-32-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8749 Unicode hex code