Kanji 春

音読おんよみ: シュン

訓読くんよみ: はる

画数かくすう: 9

部首ぶしゅ: ひ（日）

Meaning

Spring / Youth

  • 春休はるやすみ — spring break
  • 新春しんしゅん — early spring / New Year
  • 青春せいしゅん — youth
  • 春風はるかぜ — spring breeze
  • 立春りっしゅん — beginning of spring
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  • 春一番はるいちばん — first strong wind of spring
  • 思春期ししゅんき — puberty, adolescence

春 combines the elements for sun (日), grass (艹), and a phonetic. It symbolizes the season when grass begins to sprout under the sun — a time of growth, warmth, and new beginnings. The kanji is also metaphorically linked to youth and vitality.

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