U+5B63 "季" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5B63 "季" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character, also used in Japanese and Korean, that primarily means "season" or "period of time," such as spring, summer, autumn, or winter, as well as the final month of a season or the end of a period. Its structure combines the radical for "grain" or "crop" with phonetic elements suggesting a connection to the harvest or the cyclical nature of the year. In modern usage, it appears in common words like "四季" meaning the four seasons and "季節" meaning season, and it carries cultural weight in East Asian traditions where seasonal time is closely tied to agriculture, festivals, and poetry. The character dates back to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions and has maintained its core meaning across centuries of linguistic evolution.