夏

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 夏 is read なつ. It means summer, one of the four seasons.
• Basic usage: It marks a customary summer activity and a particular experience last summer.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A seasonal activity
  • 夏は家族と海へ行きます describes going to the sea with family in summer.
• A specific past summer
  • 去年の夏に sets last summer as the time when the sunflowers were grown.