Sentence #1238174 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 春天 is built
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春chūnspring
春 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
天tiānday
一one · yī
大big · dà
Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.
How to write 春天
春 9 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.
Stroke order chart for 春天 (chūntiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
春天 (chūntiān) means “spring (season)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it chūntiān: chūn with a 1st 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. 春天 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one spring (season) is 一个春天 (yí ge chūntiān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuntian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 春天 from the suggestions. Typing chuntian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
春天 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.
春chūn1st tone, high and level
