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冬天

dōng tiān 1–1

winter

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
冬 · 天
Syllables
2
dōng tiān
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,291

Part of speech: t

Character by character

  • 冬dōng5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 鼕winter, 11th lunar month
  • 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 冬天了。

    Dōng tiān le

    It was winter.

  • 冬天过了。

    Dōng tiān guò le

    Winter is gone.

  • 冬天快来了。

    Dōng tiān kuài lái le

    Winter is coming on.

  • 我在冬天出生。

    Wǒ zài dōng tiān chū shēng

    I was born in the winter.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 冬天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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