Kanji1 / 9
秋 kanji
autumn
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
シュウ
Kun readings
あきとき
Variant forms
穐龝Words with 秋
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —一日三秋(waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity
- —暗送秋波giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes
- —秋風落莫forlorn and helpless; lonely and desolate
- —春秋戦国the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
- —媚眼秋波casting a coquettish glance (at a man)
- —春花秋月spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season
- —春秋時代Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history; approx. 770-403 BCE); Chunqiu period; Ch'unch'iu period
- —秋霖前線autumn rain front; fall rain front
- —千秋万歳may you live a thousand years
- —文藝春秋Bungeishunju (publishing company); Bungei Shunjū (magazine)
- —春秋航空Spring Airlines
- —三尺の秋水sharpened sword
- —三秋の思いlonging for loved ones
- —中秋の名月harvest moon
- —春秋に富むto be young; to be young and have a promising future
- —春秋の筆法critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect
- —秋季皇霊祭imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox
- —秋波を送るto cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances
- —春秋左氏伝Zuo zhuan (c. 4th century BC); The Zuo Tradition; The Commentary of Zuo
- —春秋公羊伝Gongyang Zhuan (Chinese classical work); Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals; Commentary of Gongyang