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Mythic Mandarin

冬 (dōng): meaning and stroke order

冬 (dōng) means winter, (onom.) beating a drum, rat-a-tat, surname Dong.

冬

Simplified
冬
Traditional
冬, 鼕
Pinyin
dōng

Stroke order of 冬

冬

  • dōng winter
  • Dōng surname Dong
  • dōng (onom.) beating a drum; rat-a-tat
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鼕

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 冬

  1. dōng
    • winter
  2. dōng Traditional 鼕
    • (onom.) beating a drum
    • rat-a-tat
  3. Dōng Traditional 鼕
    • surname Dong

Radical and structure

冬
Radical 冫 (Kangxi radical 15) · 5 strokes · 夂 on top, 冫 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 冬

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).