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春 — spring (season)

はる春 spring (season)

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes time

U+6625 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #579 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1568 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

spring (season)

word

はる haru Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

春(はる) haru spring 春(はる) の haruno of spring 春(はる) 日(ひ) haruhi spring day 春(はる) 樹(き) haruki Haruki (given name)

しゅん shun On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

青(せい) 春(しゅん) seishun youth 売(ばい) 春(しゅん) baishun prostitution 文(ぶん) 春(しゅん) bunshun Bunshun (Bungei Shunju magazine) 早(そう) 春(しゅん) soushun early spring 思(し) 春(しゅん) 期(き) shishunki puberty

Appears in idioms

春夏秋冬四字熟語

spring (season), summer, autumn, winter

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𡗗 spring top

ひ日 sun #72

Compound ideograph with phonetic element (会意兼形声). 日 (sun) at the bottom with plant elements above. Spring — when the sun coaxes plants upward.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#72 日 sun