梅雨

つゆ (East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July)

Why it means this

梅 (ume) + 雨 (rain) — the early-summer rainy season, so named because it falls when the ume ripen. Read つゆ or ばいう.

Breakdown

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