- chūn qiūㄔㄨㄣ ㄑㄧㄡ
- spring and autumn; four seasons; the year; a person's age; Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), with many states contending for hegemony; Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State 722-481 BC, the earliest surviving Chinese history in the form of a[cedict]