春休み Spring Break

Meaning

Primary

Spring Break

Alternatives

Spring Vacation, Spring Holiday

Word Type

noun

Explanation

You've seen 夏休み and 冬休み. If that isn't enough, you can see that this is a spring rest of some kind. That would be a spring break or spring vacation.

Reading

はるやすみ

Explanation

The reading for 春 is the same as the one you learned with the kanji. The 休み part is the same as the vocab word 休み, which hopefully you can read! If you know those readings, you can read this too.

Context

Common Word Combinations

• 春休みの〜

  春休みの宿題

  homework for spring break

  春休みの間

  during spring break

  春休みの期間

  spring break season

• 春休みに〜

  春休みになる

  to become spring break

  春休みに入る

  to enter spring break

  春休みに行く

  to go during spring break

• 〜の春休み

  前の春休み

  last spring break, a previous spring break

  三月の春休み

  spring break in March

  今年の春休み

  this year's spring break

Context Sentences

春休みには家族で日本に行く予定です。

We're planning to go to Japan with the family during spring break.

春休み中に本をたくさん読むつもりです。

I plan to read a lot of books during spring break.

春休みの間は、僕はずっとバイトをしてました。

I was working part-time throughout spring break.

Kanji Composition

1. 春

   はる Spring
2. 休

   きゅう Rest