春日

Chinese

		spring (time); gay; joyful spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life	day; sun; date day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (春日)		春	日

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• 春日市

Etymology

“Kasuga”

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 春日 (Kasuga).

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “apparently the Taiwanese place name is also derived from Japanese antics? the zh.wp and ja.wp pages do not seem to agree on the finer details though ("Kasuga"? "Kasugagu"? "Kasugaku"? "Kasuvongan"?)”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chūnrì

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹ jat⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhun-ji̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūnrì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chunrìh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun¹-jih⁴
    • Yale: chwūn-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuenryh
    • Palladius: чуньжи (čunʹži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceon¹ jat⁶
    • Yale: chēun yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên¹ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵ jɐt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhun-ji̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tshun-ji̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhunjit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰun³³ d͡zit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ d͡zit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ zit̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhwin nyit

Rime
Character	春	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昌脣切	人質切
Baxter	tsyhwin	nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiuɪn/	/ȵiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰʷin/	/ȵit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰjuen/	/ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰwin/	/ȵit̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiuĕn/	/ȵiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭuĕn/	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯uĕn/	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chūn	rì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon1	jat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰun  C.nik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjun  njiɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	春	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chūn	rì
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhwin ›	‹ nyit ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰun/	/*C.nik/
English	springtime	sun; day
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.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	春	日
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12573	10845
Phonetic component	屯	日
Rime group	文	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	春	日
Old Chinese	/*tʰjun/	/*njiɡ/
Notes	說文從艸從日屯聲， 實屯繁化轉註字

Noun

春日

1. (literary) spring; spring days

   • 春日載陽，有鳴倉庚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     春日载阳，有鸣仓庚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Chūnrì zǎi yáng, yǒu míng cānggēng. [Pinyin]

     With the spring days the warmth begins,
     And the oriole utters its song.

2. (Classical) spring sun

Derived terms

• 春日遲遲 / 春日迟迟

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (春日):

• → Japanese: 春日(しゅんじつ) (shunjitsu)
• → Korean: 춘일(春日) (chunil)

Proper noun

春日

1. (～鄉) Chunri (a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan)
2. (～市) Kasuga (a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)