Pinyin: xià

summer

Example sentence

夏天我常游泳。

Xiàtiān wǒ cháng yóuyǒng.

In summer I often swim.

What 夏 means

(xià) is a Chinese word meaning “summer”. 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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