春树

春樹
chūnshù
noun #71,724

Meanings

  1. 1 spring trees
  2. 2 trees in spring (literary)

Examples

Wèiběi chūnshù, Jiāngdōng rìmù.
Spring trees north of the Wei River; sunset east of the Yangtze.
Chuāng wài de chūnshù yǐjīng chōu chū le xīnyá.
The spring trees outside the window have already sprouted new buds.

Tips

history
春树 is from Du Fu's 《春日李白》 — the 'spring trees' and 'sunset clouds' evoke the thousand-mile distance between Du Fu and his absent friend Li Bai.
culture
In Japanese, the same two characters read Haruki () — the given name of novelist Murakami Haruki (春树), whose Chinese fans often spot this word in their own poetry.

Stroke Order

chūn
shù