弥生

やよい third month of the lunar calendar

Why it means this

弥 (increasingly) + 生 (growth) — 'ever more growth'; the old name for the third lunar month, and the Yayoi period (named after the Tokyo district where its pottery was found).

Breakdown

弥や all the more, increasingly
生セイ life, genuine, birth

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