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春 kanji
springtime, spring (season)
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
シュン
Kun readings
はる
Variant forms
旾Words with 春
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —春風駘蕩warm and genial spring weather; genial and balmy
- —春分の日Vernal Equinox Day (national holiday; March 20 or 21); Spring Equinox Day
- —春夏の交change from spring to summer
- —児童売春child prostitution
- —春宵一刻a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold)
- —春日遅々long and balmy (of a spring day)
- —春秋戦国the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
- —青春群像youthful crowd; crowd of young people coming into their own
- —青春時代one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life
- —春花秋月spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season
- —青春映画youth film; teen movie
- —春秋時代Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history; approx. 770-403 BCE); Chunqiu period; Ch'unch'iu period
- —売春組織prostitution ring
- —青春小説youth novel
- —児童買春child prostitution
- —春化処理vernalization
- —管理売春pimping; pandering
- —週刊文春Shūkanbunshun (weekly magazine)
- —文藝春秋Bungeishunju (publishing company); Bungei Shunjū (magazine)
- —春秋航空Spring Airlines