春
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spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 日 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 春
- Common rank
- #418
- Unicode
- U+6625
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
springtime · Heisig RSH #1230
bonsai + sun
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 春
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人生一世，草木一春 | Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence | |
| 长春市 | Changchun, sub-provincial city and capital of Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] | |
| 春风一度 | to have sexual intercourse (once) | |
| 春风和气 | (idiom) amiable as a spring breeze | |
| 阳春市 | Yangchun, a county-level city in Yangjiang City 陽江市|阳江市[Yang2 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 春分点 | the spring equinox | |
| 春风得意 | flushed with success; proud of one's success (in exams, promotion etc); as pleased as punc… | |
| 阳春面 | plain noodles in broth | |
| 报春花 | primrose (Primula malacoides) | |
| 春水 | (literary) the water in rivers, lakes etc during spring, esp. after snowmelt or spring rai… | |
| 春心 | amorous feelings; stirrings of love | |
| 春风满面 | see 滿面春風|满面春风[man3 mian4 chun1 feng1] | |
| 满面春风 | (idiom) radiant with happiness; beaming | |
| 春天 | spring (season); CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 小春 | 10th month of the lunar calendar; Indian summer; crops sown in late autumn | |
| 春化 | (agriculture) vernalization | |
| 着手成春 | lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation… | |
| 春分 | Chunfen or Spring Equinox, 4th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 21st March-4th April | |
| 发春 | in heat | |
| 长春 | see 長春市|长春市[Chang2 chun1 Shi4] |
Sound family
These characters use 春 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 春 sound part | springtime; joyful, lustful, wanton | |
| 蠢 | to wriggle; stupid, silly, fat | |
| 椿 | Chinese toon tree; father (poetic) | |
| 蝽 | bedbug |