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Chinese[edit]
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spring (time); gay; joyful spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
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society; group
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simp. and trad. (春社)
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春
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社
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Pronunciation[edit]
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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春
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社
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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chūn
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shè
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Middle Chinese
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‹ tsyhwin ›
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‹ dzyæX ›
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Old Chinese
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/*tʰun/
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/*m-tʰAʔ/
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English
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springtime
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sacrifice to the spirit of the soil
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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春
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社
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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12573
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12497
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Phonetic component
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屯
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土
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Rime group
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文
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魚
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Rime subdivision
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2
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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春
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社
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Old Chinese
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/*tʰjun/
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/*ɦljaːʔ/
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Notes
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說文從艸從日屯聲, 實屯繁化轉註字
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春社
- A festival in honor of the earth god, observed on the 5th day which begins with Yang earth (戊) (see Sexagenary cycle), after lichun.
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