Definition/Meaning of 秋

• Translingual - Etymology: Ideogrammic compound ( 會意 ): 禾 ( “ grain ” ) + 火 ( “ fire ” ) - burning crops with fire . In autumn , the Ancient Chinese would burn the fields to kill the locust eggs , in order to prevent them from eating the crops the following year .
• Translingual - Han character: 秋 ( radical 115 禾+4, 9 strokes , cangjie input 竹木火 (HDF), four-corner 2998 0 , composition ⿰禾火) autumn , fall year Derived characters 鍬 See also 秌
• Translingual - References: KangXi: page 850, character 6 Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24940 Dae Jaweon: page 1273, character 2 Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4 , page 2595, character 5 Unihan data for U+79CB
• Chinese - Pronunciation: Compounds 秋波 秋月
• Chinese - References: ( Hakka ) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary ( Hakka ) Lau , Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press , 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9. ( Min Nan ) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)