Character · Time
春
はる haru
spring
Composition
Origin
Originally shoots breaking through the soil under the sun 日, with 屯 as phonetic: the season when everything sprouts.
Proverbs carrying this character
- 167 春の海ひねもすのたりのたりかな The spring sea — all day long it swells and gently swells.
- 215 行く春や鳥啼き魚の目は泪 Departing spring — birds cry, and there are tears in the eyes of fish.
- 221 めでたさも中位なりおらが春 A happiness about medium, I'd say — my own New Year.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
- 286 春はあけぼの In spring, it is the dawn.