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春光 (chūn guāng) — spring scenery, the sights and sounds of spring; (literary) lustful scenes, erotic scenes

Definition

Literary noun meaning 'spring scenery' — the sights of the season. It also has a classical euphemistic sense for 'erotic scenes' (as in 春光乍泄), rare in modern use.

noun
spring scenerythe sights and sounds of spring(literary) lustful sceneserotic scenes

Examples

  • ，春光。
    Zǒu zài gōng yuán lǐ, mǎn yǎn dōu shì míng mèi de chūn guāng.
    Walking in the park, all you see is bright and beautiful spring scenery.
  • 春光，。
    Zhè shǒu shī miáo xiě le jiāng nán de chūn guāng, lìng rén xiàng wǎng.
    This poem describes the spring scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, making people yearn for it.
  • 春光。
    Nà bù diàn yǐng lǐ yǒu yí gè chūn guāng zhà xiè de jìng tóu.
    There is a scene in that movie where a glimpse of lustful scenes is revealed.

Origin

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.

春chūnspring
光guānglight/scenery

春 (spring) and 光 (light/scenery) together evoke the sights of spring.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
艸艸cǎograss
日日rìsun
Sound part声符shēngfú
屯
屯tún春chūn
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

春 combines 艸 (grass) and 日 (sun) with 屯, which supplies the sound and is described as a swollen sprout.

Open 春 →

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

  • 火火huǒfire
  • 卩卩jiékneeling person

The shape 光 places 火 (fire) above 卩 (a kneeling person), showing fire over the head and the shining of light.

Open 光 →
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