0123 - 秋[추] - 가을 - autumn, fall; year

The Story [이야기] :

• This character combines the character for "grain/crop" 禾 with the character for "fire" 火.  When autumn comes, crops 禾 are harvested, dried 火, and stored in preparation for the winter.

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

입추 [立秋] - onset of autumn (one of the 24 seasonal divisions)
춘추 [春秋] - spring and autumn; years; age; years
중추 [中秋] - the fifteenth day of the eighth month by lunar calendar; a harvest festival; mid-autumn day
삼추 [三秋] - the three months of autumn; the three autumn months; three years
천추 [千秋] - a thousand years; many years
내추 [來秋] - next autumn [fall]; the coming autumn
추월 [秋月] - the autumn moon

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

그의 父친은 春秋 80에 아직도 活力이 넘친다.
His father is eighty years old and still full of energy.

水요日은 말복이자 立秋였다.
Wednesday marked the end of summer and the start of autumn under the lunar calendar.