HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Time

冬天 dōngtiān “winter” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 冬天 means

  1. winter

How to say 冬天

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale冬dōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level

冬天 in a sentence

  1. 冬天是我最喜欢的季节。

    Dōngtiān shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de jìjié.

    Winter is my favourite season.

    Sentence #414622 from Tatoeba

  2. 冬天经常下雪。

    Dōngtiān jīngcháng xiàxuě.

    It often snows in winter.

    Sentence #2364539 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 冬天我穿一件大衣。

    Dōngtiān wǒ chuān yí jiàn dàyī.

    In winter I wear an overcoat.

    Sentence #358069 from Tatoeba

How 冬天 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 冬 (dōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
冬dōngwinter
  • 夂go · zhǐ
  • ⺀ice form of 冫 · bīng
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 冬天

冬 5 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.

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

Words related to 冬天

Words with 冬

冬dōng · winter

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夏天xiàtiān · summer春天chūntiān · spring (season)

More words: Time & Dates

不久bùjiǔ · soon好久hǎojiǔ · a long time夏天xiàtiān · summer新年xīnnián · New Year春天chūntiān · spring (season)假期jiàqī · holiday秋天qiūtiān · autumn半天bàntiān · half a day

FAQs

冬天 (dōngtiān) means “winter”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it dōngtiān: dōng 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. 冬天 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dongtian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冬天 from the suggestions. Typing dongtian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冬天 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.