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Chinese
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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
| 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. * 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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Noun
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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