春社

Chinese

		spring (time); gay; joyful spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life	society; group
simp. and trad. (春社)		春	社

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chūnshè

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣ ㄕㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūnshè
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣ ㄕㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chunshè
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun¹-shê⁴
    • Yale: chwūn-shè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuensheh
    • Palladius: чуньшэ (čunʹšɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhwin dzyaeX

Rime
Character	春	社
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昌脣切	常者切
Baxter	tsyhwin	dzyaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiuɪn/	/d͡ʑiaX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰʷin/	/d͡ʑiaX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰjuen/	/d͡ʑiaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰwin/	/d͡ʑiaX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiuĕn/	/ʑiaX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭuĕn/	/ʑĭaX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯uĕn/	/ʑi̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chūn	shè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon1	se6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰun  m-tʰAʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjun  ɦljaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	春	社
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chūn	shè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhwin ›	‹ dzyæX ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰun/	/*m-tʰAʔ/
English	springtime	sacrifice to the spirit of the soil
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	社
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12573	12497
Phonetic component	屯	土
Rime group	文	魚
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	春	社
Old Chinese	/*tʰjun/	/*ɦljaːʔ/
Notes	說文從艸從日屯聲， 實屯繁化轉註字

Noun

春社

1. A festival in honor of the earth god, observed on the 5th day which begins with Yang earth (戊) (see Sexagenary cycle), after lichun.

See also

• 秋社 (qiūshè)
• 社賽／社赛 (shèsài)