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夏 is the word/character used to describe the Summer season in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
If your name is Summer, I like this character better than transliterating a few characters together to make something that sounds like “summer.”
秋 is the word/character used to describe the Autumn or Fall season in Chinese and Japanese.
See Also: Winter | Spring | Summer | Four Seasons
Japanese surname
春夏秋冬 is one way to express “The Four Seasons “ or “All Year Round “.
The characters here represent Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall), and Winter.
Like a moth to the flame
飛んで火に入る夏の虫 is a Japanese proverb that means rushing to one's doom.
The literal meaning is, “Summer insects flying into the flame” which is like the English idiom, “Like a moth to a flame.”
Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Summer search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
夏 see styles |
xià xia4 hsia pain ぱいん |
More info & calligraphy: Summer Season(n,adv) summer; (female given name) Pain Summer. |
四季 see styles |
sì jì si4 ji4 ssu chi yomogi よもぎ |
More info & calligraphy: The Four Seasonsthe four seasons; (female given name) Yomogi |
四阿 see styles |
azuma あづま |
More info & calligraphy: Azuka |
サマー see styles |
zamaa / zama ザマー |
More info & calligraphy: Samaa |
五月雨 see styles |
samidare さみだれ |
More info & calligraphy: Samidare |
春夏秋冬 see styles |
chūn xià qiū dōng chun1 xia4 qiu1 dong1 ch`un hsia ch`iu tung chun hsia chiu tung hitotose ひととせ |
More info & calligraphy: The Four Seasons(n,adv) (yoji) spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; the four seasons; (personal name) Hitotose |
伏 see styles |
fú fu2 fu fuse ふせ |
to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; volt (surname) Fuse Prostrate; humble; suffer, bear; ambush; dog-days; hatch; it is used for control, under control, e. g. as delusion; 斷 is contrasted with it as complete extirpation, so that no delusive thought arises. |
峠 see styles |
xx xx5 xx dougesaki / dogesaki どうげさき |
(Japanese kokuji) mountain pass; (fig.) crisis point; pr. tōge (n,n-suf) (1) (mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; (2) peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis; critical point; most difficult part; (surname) Dougesaki |
暑 see styles |
shǔ shu3 shu atsu あつ |
heat; hot weather; summer heat (1) heat; (2) midsummer; (female given name) Atsu hot |
絽 see styles |
ro ろ |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) silk gauze (esp. used in light clothing for high summer) |
綟 see styles |
moji もじ |
hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc. |
臘 腊 see styles |
là la4 la rou / ro ろう |
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month; the 12th lunar month; (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month (1) {Buddh} offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; (2) twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; (3) (See 臈) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) Dried flesh; to sacrifice to the gods three days after the winter solstice; the end of the year; a year; a monastic year, i.e. the end of the annual summer retreat, also called 戒臘; 夏臘; 法臘. |
雩 see styles |
yú yu2 yü |
summer sacrifice for rain |
一夏 see styles |
yī xià yi1 xia4 i hsia hitoka ひとか |
{Buddh} (See 安居・あんご) one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat); (female given name) Hitoka The summer retreat in India of, 90 days, from the 16th of the 4th moon to the 15th of the 7th; v. 雨. |
一臈 see styles |
yī là yi1 la4 i la ichirō |
一臘 The end of the monastic year at the summer retreat; a monastic year; also called 法臈? or 法歲, the religious year; cf. 一夏. |
三夏 see styles |
minatsu みなつ |
three summer months; (female given name) Minatsu |
三季 see styles |
sān jì san1 ji4 san chi miki みき |
(female given name) Miki The "three seasons" of an Indian year— spring, summer, and winter; a year. |
上臈 see styles |
shàng là shang4 la4 shang la jourou / joro じょうろう |
court lady; noblewoman The "la" is the end of a summer's retreat, which ends the monastic year, hence 上臈 are senior, 下臈 junior monks. |
上都 see styles |
shàng dū shang4 du1 shang tu jouto / joto じょうと |
Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) (place-name) Xanadu; Shangdu |
中元 see styles |
zhōng yuán zhong1 yuan2 chung yüan nakamoto なかもと |
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased (1) 15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival; (2) (See お中元) mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts; (surname) Nakamoto The fifteenth of the seventh moon; see 孟蘭盆. |
九夏 see styles |
jiǔ xià jiu3 xia4 chiu hsia kyuuka / kyuka きゅうか |
summer nine ten day periods in summer |
二至 see styles |
nishi にし |
the two solstices (summer and winter) |
今夏 see styles |
konka こんか |
(n,adv) this summer; next summer; last summer |
仲夏 see styles |
zhòng xià zhong4 xia4 chung hsia chuuka / chuka ちゅうか |
midsummer; second month of summer (1) midsummer; (2) (obsolete) (See 皐月・1) fifth month of the lunar calendar |
伏汛 see styles |
fú xùn fu2 xun4 fu hsün |
summer flood |
作擧 作举 see styles |
zuò jǔ zuo4 ju3 tso chü sako |
The accusation of sin made against particular monks by the virtuous monk who presides at the pravāraṇa gathering on the last day of the summer's rest. |
六時 六时 see styles |
liù shí liu4 shi2 liu shih rokuji ろくじ |
(1) six o'clock; (2) (Buddhist term) six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night) The six 'hours' or periods in a day, three for night and three for day, i. e. morning noon, evening; night, midnight, and dawn. Also, the six divisions of the year, two each of spring, summer, and winter. |
六淫 see styles |
liù yín liu4 yin2 liu yin rokuin ろくいん |
(TCM) six excesses causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風|风[feng1], cold 寒[han2], heat 暑[shu3], damp 濕|湿[shi1], dryness 燥[zao4], fire 火[huo3] six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine (wind, cold, fire-heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer) |
冬夏 see styles |
dōng xià dong1 xia4 tung hsia fuyuka ふゆか |
winter and summer (female given name) Fuyuka |
冷夏 see styles |
hina ひな |
cool summer; cold summer; cooler-than-normal summer; (female given name) Hina |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Summer Season | 夏 | natsu | xià / xia4 / xia | hsia |
Autumn Fall Season | 秋 | aki | qiū / qiu1 / qiu | ch`iu / chiu |
Azuka | 四阿 | Azuka | ||
The Four Seasons | 春夏秋冬 | shunkashuutou shunkashuto | chūn xià qiū dōng chun1 xia4 qiu1 dong1 chun xia qiu dong chunxiaqiudong | ch`un hsia ch`iu tung chunhsiachiutung chun hsia chiu tung |
Tondehiniirunatsunomushi | 飛んで火に入る夏の虫 | tondehiniirunatsunomushi tondehinirunatsunomushi | ||
Samidare | 五月雨 | samidare |
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