HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Time

夏天 xiàtiān “summer” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 夏天 means

  1. summer

Measure word 个 gè · 一个夏天 yí ge xiàtiān

How to say 夏天

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale夏xià4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level

夏天 in a sentence

  1. 我不喜欢夏天。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan xiàtiān.

    I don’t like summer.

    Sentence #1700146 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 去年夏天我去意大利旅行。

    Qùnián xiàtiān wǒ qù Yìdàlì lǚxíng.

    Last summer I travelled to Italy.

    Sentence #861153 from Tatoeba

  3. 夏天我穿短袖衬衫。

    Xiàtiān wǒ chuān duǎnxiù chènshān.

    In summer I wear short-sleeved shirts.

    Sentence #471419 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 夏天 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 夏 (xià) with each of its parts in a different colour
夏xiàsummer
  • 一one · yī
  • 自self · zì
  • 夂go · zhǐ
The character 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

How to write 夏天

夏 10 strokes · 天 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

夏天 (xiàtiān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 夏天 (xiàtiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 夏天

Words with 夏

夏xià · summer夏令营xiàlìngyíng · summer camp

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat冬天dōngtiān · winter春天chūntiān · spring (season)

More words: Time & Dates

直到zhídào · until季jì · season不久bùjiǔ · soon好久hǎojiǔ · a long time新年xīnnián · New Year冬天dōngtiān · winter春天chūntiān · spring (season)假期jiàqī · holiday

FAQs

夏天 (xiàtiān) means “summer”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it xiàtiān: xià with a 4th tone, then tiān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 夏天 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one summer is 一个夏天 (yí ge xiàtiān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiatian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 夏天 from the suggestions. Typing xiatian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
夏天 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.