Winter in Chinese (Mandarin): 冬 (dōng)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 冬

• 冬

  Winter. The two dots at the bottom stand for ice.

  5 strokes

First tone. The season is 冬天 (dōngtiān), and the winter holiday is 寒假 (hánjià).

More examples with 冬

• 冬天我们堆雪人。

  冬天我們堆雪人。

  Dōngtiān wǒmen duī xuěrén.

  In winter we build snowmen.

• 冬天要穿厚衣服。

  Dōngtiān yào chuān hòu yīfu.

  Wear thick clothes in winter.

How to write 冬 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.