夏 【カ】 Xia dynasty (China, perhaps c. 2070-1600 BCE, perhaps
mythological), Hsia dynasty
夏季 【カキ】 summer season
初夏 【ショカ】 early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
盛夏 【セイカ】 midsummer, height of summer
夏 【ゲ】 summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month
to the 15th day of the 7th month)
夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
一夏 【イチゲ】 one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
半夏 【ハンゲ】 crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer
solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day |
Japanese
Hiragana Katakana Kanji
