IDENTITY
冬dōngwinter
HSK 1Top 500
CORE MEANING
winter
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.winterHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 冫ice radical (bīng)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱夂⺀
- the end (of the year)
- ice
USAGE
Common words
冬天dōngtiānwinter
冬瓜dōngguāwinter melon
Graded examples
冬天来了，天气冷了。Dōngtiān lái le, tiānqì lěng le.HSK2
Winter has come and it is getting cold.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Ice (冫) at the year’s end (夂) — winter.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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