Pinyin: dōng

winter

Example sentence

北方的冬天下雪。

Běifāng de dōngtiān xià xuě.

It snows in the north in winter.

What 冬 means

(dōng) is a Chinese word meaning “winter”. It belongs to the Time & Nature topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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