Character · Time
秋
あき aki
autumn
Composition
Origin
Grain (禾) and fire (火), the harvest season; early forms showed a cricket, and the origin is debated.
Proverbs carrying this character
- 106 秋の日は釣瓶落とし The autumn sun drops like a well bucket.
- 107 物言えば唇寒し秋の風 As soon as words are spoken, the lips feel cold — autumn wind.
- 126 一葉落ちて天下の秋を知る One leaf falls, and we know autumn is coming to the world.
- 181 秋深き隣は何をする人ぞ Deep autumn — my neighbor, how does he live?
- 216 枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 On a bare branch a crow has settled — autumn evening.
- 219 この道や行く人なしに秋の暮 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
- 293 秋の田のかりほの庵の苫をあらみ我が衣手は露にぬれつつ In the harvest-watch hut by the autumn fields, its rush roof loose, my sleeves grow wet with dew.