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A tag for season-related terms? #139

Open JMdictProject opened 2 months ago

JMdictProject commented 2 months ago

The following suggestion came in via jisho.org. I said I doubted it would get much support, but it should be exposed as an issue, at least for a while.

I'd like to recommend a new word search tag for seasons

sea or #seasons (and #words)

would return: 春 (spring) 夏 (summer) 秋 (fall/ autumn) 冬 (winter)

Also, could be included under #seasons are the 24 Solar Terms (二十四節気, nijūshi sekki), divides the year into 24 periods, each lasting about 15 days. These terms have names that describe specific seasonal phenomena, such as:

Risshun (立春) - Beginning of spring Usui (雨水) - Rainwater Keichitsu (啓蟄) - Awakening of insects Shunbun (春分) - Vernal equinox Seimei (清明) - Clear and bright Kokuu (穀雨) - Grain rain Rikka (立夏) - Beginning of summer Shōman (小満) - Grain full Bōshu (芒種) - Grain in ear Geshi (夏至) - Summer solstice Shōsho (小暑) - Minor heat Taisho (大暑) - Major heat Risshū (立秋) - Beginning of autumn Shosho (処暑) - End of heat Hakuro (白露) - White dew Shūbun (秋分) - Autumnal equinox Kanro (寒露) - Cold dew Sōkō (霜降) - Frost descent Rittō (立冬) - Beginning of winter Shōsetsu (小雪) - Minor snow Taisetsu (大雪) - Major snow Tōji (冬至) - Winter solstice Shōkan (小寒) - Minor cold Daikan (大寒) - Major cold

Sombreroo commented 4 days ago

For what it's worth, I might as well give my opinion on this. I think it actually isn't that bad of an idea. Some of the kokugos already do this, and I've seen it quite often so far. I think it is a nice bit of additional information on a term. When looking up the just now submitted 山栗 (https://www.edrdg.org/jmwsgi/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&e=2322907), daij and koj also give 《季・秋》apart from the gloss itself. I don't know much about the 24 Solar Terms, but just from looking at it, I could image this could get a bit messy. The implications in terms of effort when it comes to implementing either of the two seasonal specifiers, are of course not known to me.