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秋老虎 very hot weather in autumn;
秋後 period after onset of autumn;
秋扇見捐 (woman) cast aside like the fan in autumn;
秋思 feeling of desolation;
秋風秋雨 disconsolate winds and rains;
秋土 old, forgotten scholar;
秋汎 autumn floods;
秋色 autumnal colors;
秋試，秋闈 provincial test for 舉人 degree in civil examinations;
秋涼 the chill of autumn;
秋意 slight chill in the air, a “touch” of autumn;
秋季 autumn;
中秋 Mid-Autumn Festival (15th of the 8th lunar month);
晚秋 late autumn;
深秋 in deep autumn;
麥秋 harvest time;
春秋 Spring and Autumn, see 春 12.41.
(2) Year: 千秋 a thousand years, (fig.) forever;
千秋萬歲 eternity.
(3) Time, period: 多事之秋 troublous times;
危急存亡之秋 period of national crisis, a time when national existence hangs in the balance.
(4) A surname.
2.秋成 [qiu1cheng2], n., harvest (season).
3.秋千 [qiu1qian1], n., the swing (on which children and ladies play; var. of 鞦韆).
4.秋氣 [qiu1qi4], n., the air, the chill of autumn; (fig.) air of desolation.
5.秋分 [qiu1fen1], n., the autumnal equinox (September 23 or 24).
6.秋風 [qiu1feng1], n, (1) The autumnal winds: 秋風過耳 unheeded like a passing autumnal breeze; [qiu1feng1], n, (2) 打秋風 get commission on errands, send birthday or wedding invitations indiscriminately to one and all with the hope of getting presents from them.
7.秋海棠 [qiu1hai3tang2], n., (bot.) the begonia, Begonia evansiana.
8.秋毫 [qiu1hao2], n., (lit.) autumn down on birds--very minute particle: 秋毫無犯 (of army) do not cause the slightest damage to the people (by looting, etc.).
9.秋節 [qiu1jie2], n., the Mid-Autumn Festival.
10.秋葵 [qiu1kui2], n., (bot.) the hibiscus, Abelmoschous esculentus.
11.秋羅 [qiu1luo2], n., a thin twill silk.
12.秋牡丹 [qiu1mu3dan1], n., (bot.) Japanese anemone, Anemone japonica.
13.秋娘 [qiu1niang2], n., woman in the thirty-forties.
14.秋收 [qiu1shou1], n., the autumn harvest.
15.秋霜 [qiu1shuang1], n., frost in autumn, (fig.) of cold countenance, also of white hair on old man.
16.秋水 [qiu1shui3], n., the autumn waters, (fig.) of woman's fluid glance, see [qiu1bo1]↑; clear, bright look; sword flash.
17.秋事 [qiu1shi4], n., harvest affairs.
18.秋汛 [qiu1xUn4], n., autumnal floods.
19.秋天 [qiu1tian1], n., autumn (days).