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端午节 Duānwǔjié “Dragon Boat Festival” in Chinese

Traditional 端午節

What 端午节 means

  1. Dragon Boat Festival
  2. Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)

How to say 端午节

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale端Duān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale午wǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale节jié2nd tone, rising

端午节 in a sentence

  1. 端午节是纪念屈原的。

    Duānwǔjié shì jìniàn Qū Yuán de.

    The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan.

    Sentence #5687432 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 端午节要赛龙舟。

    Duānwǔjié yào sài lóngzhōu.

    There are dragon boat races at the Dragon Boat Festival.

    Sentence #5687429 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 端午节 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 端 (duān) with each of its parts in a different colour
端duāntip; end; extremityDuān in 端午节
  • 立stand · lìMeaning part
  • 耑specialisedSound part

立 hints at the meaning (stand); 耑 () hints at the sound. Compare it with Duān.

The character 午 (wǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
午wǔ7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 干dry · gān

Memory aidDrawn from a pestle. It was borrowed for the hour around noon, as in 中午 (zhōngwǔ) “midday”.

The character 节 (jié) drawn as one shape
节jiéjoint; node

节 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidSimplified from 節, the joints of bamboo ⺮ (the simplified form has 艹 on top). From there, a section, and a festival.

How to write 端午节

端 14 strokes · 午 4 strokes · 节 5 strokes

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

Words related to 端午节

Words with 端

端duān · to carry (level with both hands)端正duānzhèng · upright极端jíduān · extreme争端zhēngduān · dispute尖端jiānduān · cutting-edge弊端bìduān · abuse

Words with 午

上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)下午xiàwǔ · afternoon中午zhōngwǔ · noon午饭wǔfàn · lunch

Words with 节

季节jìjié · season节目jiémù · programme节日jiérì · holiday过节guòjié · to celebrate a festival节jié · festival节约jiéyuē · to economise节省jiéshěng · to save细节xìjié · details国庆节Guóqìngjié · PRC National Day (October 1st)节制jiézhì · to control

More words: Time & Sequence

当代dāngdài · contemporary当前dāngqián · current丁dīng · fourth (in a series)定期dìngqī · regular顿时dùnshí · immediately黄昏huánghūn · dusk间隔jiàngé · interval季度jìdù · quarter (of a year)

FAQs

端午节 (Duānwǔjié) means “Dragon Boat Festival” or “Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it Duānwǔjié: Duān with a 1st tone, then wǔ with a 3rd tone, then jié with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 端午节 is written 端午節. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type duanwujie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 端午节 from the suggestions. Typing duanwujie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
端午节 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.