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过冬 (guò dōng): meaning and stroke order

过冬 (guò dōng) means to get through the winter.

过冬

Simplified
过冬
Traditional
過冬
Pinyin
guò dōng

Stroke order of 过冬

过

  • Guō surname Guo
  • guò to cross; to go over
  • guo (experienced action marker)
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 過

Stroke by stroke

冬

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 过冬

  1. guò dōng Traditional 過冬
    • to get through the winter

Radicals of the characters

过
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 7 strokes · built from 辶 and 寸
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.

过冬 in our stories

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  • “那些撞伤了额头的鱼，回到河里，照样产卵、过冬，养活了一条河。龙只活在故事里，河却是靠它们活着的。”

    nàxiē zhuàng shāng le étóu de yú huídào hé lǐ zhàoyàng chǎnluǎn guòdōng yǎnghuo le yì tiáo hé lóng zhǐ huó zài gùshi lǐ hé què shì kào tāmen huó zhe de

    "The fish that bruised their foreheads go back into the river and still spawn and live through the winter; they keep a whole river alive. Dragons live only in stories, but the river lives by them."

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 过冬

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).