Meanings
Noun
Buddhist
1. summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
summer solstice
one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)
summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study
crow dipper (Pinellia tuber); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
period during which monks may go into a summer retreat
summer solstitial point