HSK 4 · Time

寒假 hánjià “winter holidays” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 寒假 means

  1. winter holidays
  2. winter holiday

How to say 寒假

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale寒hán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale假jià4th tone, falling

寒假 in a sentence

  1. 你的寒假怎么过的？

    Nǐ de hánjià zěnme guò de?

    How did you spend your winter holidays?

    Sentence #8686670 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你寒假过得愉快吗？

    Nǐ hánjià guò de yúkuài ma?

    Did you have a good winter holiday?

    Sentence #838552 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 寒假 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 寒 (hán) drawn as one shape
寒háncold

寒 is a single shape of 12 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 假 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
假jiàholiday
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 叚false

Memory aidPerson 亻 with 叚 (jiǎ) for the sound: false, fake. Read jià, it means a holiday.

How to write 寒假

寒 12 strokes · 假 11 strokes

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

Words related to 寒假

Words with 寒

寒暄hánxuān · to exchange pleasantries严寒yánhán · bitter cold

Words with 假

请假qǐngjià · to ask for time off假期jiàqī · holiday放假fàngjià · to have a holiday休假xiūjià · to take leave假jiǎ · false放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if虚假xūjiǎ · false

More words: Time

最后zuìhòu · last最近zuìjìn · recently本来běnlái · original当时dāngshí · then将来jiānglái · in the future节jié · festival礼拜天Lǐbàitiān · Sunday秒miǎo · second (of time)

FAQs

寒假 (hánjià) means “winter holidays” or “winter holiday”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it hánjià: hán with a 2nd tone, then jià with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 寒假 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hanjia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 寒假 from the suggestions. Typing hanjia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
寒假 is an HSK 4 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.