HSK 3 · Time

春 chūn “spring season” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 春 means

  1. spring season
  2. joyful
  3. youthful
  4. love
  5. lust

How to say 春

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale春chūn1st tone, high and level

春 in a sentence

  1. 春天是我最喜爱的季节。

    Chūntiān shì wǒ zuì xǐ'ài de jìjié.

    Spring is my favourite season.

    Sentence #1415756 from Tatoeba

  2. 春节快乐！

    Chūnjié kuàilè!

    Happy Spring Festival!

    Sentence #3377994 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 春天和秋天，你更喜欢哪个？

    Chūntiān hé qiūtiān, nǐ gèng xǐhuan nǎge?

    Which do you prefer, spring or autumn?

    Sentence #335123 from Tatoeba

How 春 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 春 (chūn) drawn as one shape
春chūnspring

春 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 春

春 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

春 (chūn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 春 (chūn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 春

Words with 春

春天chūntiān · spring (season)青春qīngchūn · youth

More words: Time

正在zhèngzài · in the process of还hái · still就jiù · then半bàn · half当然dāngrán · of course冬dōng · winter刚才gāngcái · just now后来hòulái · afterwards

FAQs

春 (chūn) means “spring season” or “joyful”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it chūn: chūn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 春 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 春 from the suggestions. Typing chun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
春 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.