What does 春夏冬 mean? So, I was watching an anime, whereupon I found the following text (cf. screencap): > > > This text appears in the context of the character trying to find work. I'm having difficulty figuring out what means. If you just glue the _on_ readings for those three characters together, you get , which only seems to appear as the name of various establishments. I also found that this can apparently be read in a punny way as (since is all the seasons but ). I'm guessing that the correct reading of in this context is since doesn't fit. But what does that actually mean? I doubt it's / / "not autumn", given that that doesn't make sense in context. This term doesn't seem to appear in any of the standard online dictionary searches (kotobank, goo.ne.jp, weblio, nor even in zokugo-dict), so I'm kind of at a loss here.

_The following answer is based on information taken from an earlier answer written by Tokyo Nagoya, which has been deleted by the author._

As you point out, {} is a reference to the four seasons, and in the case of , has cleverly been left off (and a added). Your intuition about the part meaning that there is no autumn is correct. When you add the {} at the end you get , which is a homophone of . This is synonymous with {}, or "in business"/"open." It's a kanji pun saying that his business is open.

So we go →→→{}