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夏天

xià tiān 4–1

summer

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
夏 · 天
Syllables
2
xià tiān
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,925

Part of speech: t

Character by character

  • 夏xià10 strokesHSK 2summer; great, grand, big
  • 天tiān4 strokesHSK 1sky, heaven; god, celestial

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

Example sentences

  • 夏天来了。

    Xià tiān lái le

    Summer is coming.

  • 夏天过去了。

    Xià tiān guò qù le

    The summer is over.

  • 已经是夏天了。

    Yǐ jīng shì xià tiān le

    It's summer already.

  • 夏天过得怎么样？

    Xià tiān guò dé zěn me yàng

    How was your summer?

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 夏天. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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