The Hanja characters for the Korean holiday Chuseok are 秋夕.
秋 means “autumn,” while 夕 means “evening” or “night.” Together, 秋夕 can be understood as “autumn evening,” a name linked to the festival’s place in the fall season and its traditional full-moon observance.
Hanja are Chinese characters historically used in Korean writing. Modern Korean normally writes the holiday in Hangul as 추석, but dictionaries, historical explanations, and formal cultural discussions may show 秋夕 to clarify the word’s origin and meaning.
秋夕 should not be confused with 中秋, the Chinese term commonly used for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The holidays occur around the same lunisolar date and share harvest and full-moon associations, but they belong to different national traditions and have distinct Korean and Chinese names.