春夏秋冬
chūn xià qiū dōng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The four seasons named in order: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Also used to mean all year round, or the passing of the years.
Bốn mùa kể theo thứ tự: xuân, hạ, thu, đông. Cũng dùng để chỉ quanh năm suốt tháng, hoặc để nói năm tháng cứ thế trôi qua.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 春 = xuân, 夏 = hạ; etymology of “xuân hạ thu đông” = 春夏秋冬 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “xuân hạ thu đông” (xuan-ha-thu-dong). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “春夏秋冬” mean?
The four seasons named in order: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Also used to mean all year round, or the passing of the years. Literally: spring, summer, autumn, winter
Is “春夏秋冬” formal or informal?
春夏秋冬 is generally neutral.