初夏 (chū xià) — early summer | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

early summer

初夏。
chū xià De yè wǎn fēi cháng liáng kuai.
Early summer nights are very cool.
初夏，。
Měi nián chū xià, wǒ dōu qù jiāo wài sàn bù.
Every early summer, I go for a walk in the suburbs.
初夏，。
chū xià De shí hou, gōng yuán lǐ de huā dū kāi le.
In early summer, the flowers in the park all bloom.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

初chūbeginning

初 (beginning) and 夏 (summer) combine to mean the early part of summer.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

衤刀初

初 combines 衤 (clothes) and 刀 (knife), showing the start of making clothes by cutting cloth.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

Some scholars connect 夏 to 日 (sun) and 頁 (head; man), reading it as a man under the sun, but this is uncertain.