春生，夏长，秋收，冬藏春生，夏長，秋收，冬藏 in English
- sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom)
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
春
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
生
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
夏
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 forms
长
These are the forms of 長, the traditional character: 长 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 forms
秋
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
收
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
冬
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
藏
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).