HSK 6 · Money

淡季 dànjì “off season” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 淡季 means

  1. off season
  2. low season
  3. slow business season

How to say 淡季

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale淡dàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale季jì4th tone, falling

淡季 in a sentence

  1. 在旅游淡季，机票会很便宜。

    Zài lǚyóu dànjì, jīpiào huì hěn piányi.

    In the tourist off season, plane tickets are cheap.

    Sentence #2448826 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 淡季 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 淡 (dàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
淡dàninsipid
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 炎flame · yánSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 炎 (yán) hints at the sound. Compare it with dàn.

The character 季 (jì) with each of its parts in a different colour
季jìseason
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 子child · zǐ

How to write 淡季

淡 11 strokes · 季 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 淡季

Words with 淡

淡dàn · light (in taste or colour)清淡qīngdàn · light (of food冷淡lěngdàn · cold淡水dànshuǐ · fresh water

Words with 季

季jì · season季节jìjié · season四季sìjì · the four seasons季度jìdù · quarter (of a year)季军jìjūn · third place

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储备chǔbèi · reserves储蓄chǔxù · savings次品cìpǐn · defective product担保dānbǎo · to guarantee倒闭dǎobì · to go bankrupt冻结dòngjié · to freeze (assets兑现duìxiàn · to fulfil (a promise)发财fācái · to get rich

FAQs

淡季 (dànjì) means “off season” or “low season”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dànjì: dàn with a 4th tone, then jì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 淡季 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type danji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 淡季 from the suggestions. Typing danji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
淡季 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.