Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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冬 dōng winter
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#689
Chapter-35 HSK-A
5 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Tung is composed of 冫 ping an old word for ice, now used as a radical, and a contraction of 終 chung end, sc. the end of the year when ice comes. The modern word for ice is 冰 ping, formed by the simple addition of water. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
冬
dōng
winter
冬
鼕
dōng
(onom.) beating a drum/rat-a-tat/surname Dong
Phrases ending with the given character
天天tiān
门門mén
冬冬dōng
asparagus
波bō
塞sāi
冬dōng
Poseidon, God of the sea in Greek mythology