冬 - dōng - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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HSK 3 - Medium
5 strokes
Traditional

冬 ( 冬, 鼕 )

dōng

Definition

winter (usually used in its two character form: 冬天)
冬天到了。

It's winter.

Character Decomposition

Compounds (8)

疼

téng

ache; hurt; (to have a) pain; (to be) sore; to love dearly; to dote on; to cherish; to be fond of

鼕

dōng

(onom.) beating a drum; rat-a-tat

終

zhōng

end; finish; final; whole time; entire period; all the time; eventually; after all; in the end

boom (of a drum)

radon (chemistry)

see 柊葉

(grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado

峂

tóng

(used in place names)

Related words (45)

冬令

dōng lìng

winter; winter climate

winter and summer

winter

shallow; uneducated

wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida); winter melon; white gourd; white hairy melon; Chinese squash

hibernation

winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)

冬粉

dōng fěn

(Tw) cellophane noodles; mung bean vermicelli

winter plowing

grade of Shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes)

冬菜

dōng cài

preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens

hibernation

winter clothes

slack winter season (farming)

holly

winter Olympics

name of "walk slowly" component in Chinese characters; see also 夂

winter games

holly

winter biathlon

to treat winter diseases in the summer (TCM)

冬蟲夏草

dōng chóng xià cǎo

caterpillar fungus (Cordyceps sinensis)

丁冬

dīng dōng

(onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound

severe winter

early winter

final month of winter (i.e. twelfth month of lunar calendar)

wintry

honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica

收冬

shōu dōng

harvest season; autumn

款冬

kuǎn dōng

coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), plant in sunflower family Asteracae used a cough suppressant

越冬

yuè dōng

to pass the winter; to overwinter; to live through the winter

過冬

guò dōng

to get through the winter

門冬

mén dōng

abbr. for 天門冬, asparagus

隆冬

lóng dōng

midwinter; the depth of winter

udon noodles

asparagus

nuclear winter

coltsfoot flower (used in TCM); Flos Farfarae

南飛過冬

nán fēi guò dōng

(of birds) to migrate south for the winter

天冬氨酸

tiān dōng ān suān

aspartic acid (Asp), an amino acid

天冬酰胺

tiān dōng xiān àn

asparagine (Asn), an amino acid

無冬無夏

wú dōng wú xià

regardless of the season; all the year round

春夏秋冬

chūn xià qiū dōng

the four seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter

殘冬臘月

cán dōng là yuè

final days of the lunar year

天冬苯丙二肽酯

tiān dōng běn bǐng èr tài zhǐ

aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)

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