冬

See also 鼕

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

冬 (radical 15 冫+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹水卜 (HEY), four-corner 2730₃)

1. winter, 11th lunar month
2. (onomatopoeia) bang, thud (鼕, 咚)

References

• KangXi: page 131, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1610
• Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 867, character 19
• Unihan data for U+51AC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

冬 (Yale dung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

冬 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: ふゆ (fuyu)

Compounds

冬季 (とうき, tōki) 冬期 (とうき, tōki) 冬至 (とうじ, tōji) 冬眠 (とうみん, tōmin)

冬将軍 (ふゆしょうぐん, fuyushōgun) 冬休 (ふゆやすみ, fuyuyasumi) 冬山 (ふゆやま, fuyuyama) 初冬 (しょとう, shotō)

晩冬 (ばんとう, bantō) 立冬 (りっとう, rittō)

Noun

冬 (hiragana ふゆ, romaji fuyu)

1. (season) winter

Synonyms

• 冬季 (とうき, tōki)
• 冬期 (とうき, tōki)

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Korean

Hanja

冬 (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

冬 (pinyin dōng (dong1), Wade-Giles tung¹)

Compounds

• 冬菜
• 冬防
• 冬菇
• 冬瓜
• 冬寒
• 冬候鸟
• 冬季
• 冬日
• 冬笋
• 冬天
• 冬蛰
• 冬至
• 冬装
• 冬眠
• 冬寒菜 (dōngháncài)
• 丁冬
• 天门冬
• 麦门冬

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Vietnamese

Han character

冬 (đông, đong)