阿春

āChūn
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Meanings

  1. 1 A-Chun (familiar nickname formed with the prefix 阿- attached to the name-character 春 'spring'; common in southern China and Taiwan)

Examples

Ā Chūn, nǐ mā jiào nǐ huí jiā chīfàn!
A-Chun, your mom's calling you home for dinner!
Ā Chūn shì cūn lǐ zuì qínkuài de xiǎohuǒzi.
A-Chun is the most hardworking young man in the village.

Tips

culture
The prefix (ā-) plus a single character from a person's given name produces a warm, casual nickname — the southern Chinese / Cantonese / Taiwanese counterpart of + name. 阿春 is the kind of name a parent or close friend would use for someone whose given name contains . Famous in fiction: 阿春 is a recurring stock character name in Hong Kong films and Mizoguchi Kenji's 1952 film 《西一代》 has a heroine named O-Haru, often translated as 阿春 in Chinese.
register
Strictly informal/intimate. Using 阿春 with someone you've just met would feel oddly familiar — reserve for family, childhood friends, or fiction.

Stroke Order

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