Core meaning

summer

Character Properties

Radical

音読み方-Onyomikata for

(KA), (GE), なつ(NATSU)


Words you should know

(なつ) summer, 夏休み(なつやすみ) summer holidays

Common words

真夏(まなつ) midsummer, 初夏(しょか) early summer

Notes

In Japanese, 夏 seems to exclusively represent summer, although in some cases in Chinese, it also used to represent great, grand and big


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