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夏 kanji
summer
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
カガゲ
Kun readings
なつ
Variant forms
夓Words with 夏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —今夏Popularthis summer; next summer; last summer
- —初夏Popularearly summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
- —夏季Popularsummer season; summer; summertime
- —冷夏Popularcool summer; cold summer; cooler-than-normal summer
- —夏期Popularsummer term (e.g. school); summer period
- —春夏秋冬Popularspring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; the four seasons
- —夏Xia dynasty (of China; ca. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological); Hsia dynasty
- —夏日summer day
- —夏眠estivation; aestivation; summer sleep
- —九夏summer
- —三夏three summer months
- —仲夏midsummer; fifth month of the lunar calendar
- —晩夏late summer; sixth month of the lunar calendar
- —立夏first day of summer (approx. May 6)
- —夏時summertime
- —盛夏midsummer; height of summer
- —消夏summering; spending the summer
- —孟夏beginning of summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
- —有夏Mainland China
- —昨夏last summer; summer of last year