春 · springtime, spring (season)

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

春 means springtime, spring (season). It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 9 strokes, read はる or しゅん. It is built from 2 parts: 𡗗, 日 (day, sun). It appears in 青春 (youth / springtime of life / adolescent).

筆順 · Stroke order

春 is written in 9 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

春 breaks into 2 parts.

• 𡗗 other · top component
• 日 semantic day, sun · bottom carries the meaning

Words that use 春

Word	Reading	Meaning
春	はる	spring
青春	せいしゅん	youth / springtime of life / adolescent

Built from the same parts

These use 𡗗 or 日 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 実fruit
• 時time
• 曜day of week
• 書to write
• 明bright
• 映to reflect
• 早early
• 者someone

Practise 春

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