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春秋 (Chūn qiū): meaning and stroke order

春秋 (Chūn qiū) means Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

春秋

Simplified
春秋
Traditional
春秋 (same form)
Pinyin
Chūn qiū

Stroke order of 春秋

春

  • chūn old variant of 春[chun1]
  • Chūn surname Chun
  • chūn spring (season); gay
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 旾

Stroke by stroke

秋

  • Qiū surname Qiu
  • qiū autumn; fall
  • qiū old variant of 秋[qiu1]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 秌

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 春秋

  1. Chūn qiū
    • Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
    • Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)
  2. chūn qiū
    • spring and autumn
    • four seasons
    • year
    • a person's age
    • annals (used in book titles)

Radicals of the characters

春
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 𡗗 on top, 日 below
秋
Radical 禾 (Kangxi radical 115) · 9 strokes · 禾 on the left, 火 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

春秋 in our stories

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  • 春秋时期，晋国的公子重耳为了躲避追杀，在外流亡了整整十九年。

    Chūnqiū shíqī Jìnguó de gōngzǐ Chóng'ěr wèile duǒbì zhuīshā zài wài liúwáng le zhěngzhěng shíjiǔ nián

    In the Spring and Autumn period, Chong'er, a prince of the state of Jin, fled assassins and lived in exile for a full nineteen years.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 春秋时期，有一位叫子张的读书人，听说鲁国的国君鲁哀公非常重视人才，就不远千里赶去求见。

    Chūnqiū shíqī yǒu yí wèi jiào Zǐzhāng de dúshūrén tīngshuō Lǔguó de guójūn Lǔ Āigōng fēicháng zhòngshì réncái jiù bùyuǎnqiānlǐ gǎn qù qiújiàn

    In the Spring and Autumn period a scholar called Zizhang heard that Duke Ai, ruler of Lu, greatly valued talented people, so he travelled a thousand li to seek an audience.

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 春秋

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).