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夏天 (xià tiān): meaning and stroke order

夏天 (xià tiān) means summer, 个.

夏天

Simplified
夏天
Traditional
夏天 (same form)
Pinyin
xià tiān

Stroke order of 夏天

夏

  • Xià the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432)
  • xià summer
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

天

  • tiān day; sky
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 夏天

  1. xià tiān
    • summer
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

夏
Radical 夊 (Kangxi radical 35) · 10 strokes · 𦣻 on top, 夊 below
天
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 大 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.

夏天 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 那时候他们穷得连空调都装不起，夏天光着膀子写程序，饿了就泡一碗方便面分着吃。

    nà shíhou tāmen qióng de lián kōngtiáo dōu zhuāng bù qǐ xiàtiān guāng zhe bǎngzi xiě chéngxù è le jiù pào yì wǎn fāngbiànmiàn fēn zhe chī

    Back then they were too poor even for air conditioning. In summer they coded shirtless, and when they were hungry they shared a bowl of instant noodles.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 七岁那年夏天，天气热得让人喘不过气来，哪吒跑到海边，把红绫放进水里洗澡。

    qī suì nà nián xiàtiān tiānqì rè de ràng rén chuǎn bú guò qì lái Nézhā pǎo dào hǎibiān bǎ hóng líng fàng jìn shuǐ lǐ xǐzǎo

    The summer he was seven, it was so hot people could hardly breathe; Nezha ran down to the shore and put the red sash in the water to bathe.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 据说在五千年前，人们还只会用兽皮和树叶做衣服，冬天太冷，夏天又太热。

    jùshuō zài wǔqiān nián qián rénmen hái zhǐ huì yòng shòupí hé shùyè zuò yīfu dōngtiān tài lěng xiàtiān yòu tài rè

    It is said that five thousand years ago people could only make clothes from animal skins and leaves: too cold in winter and too hot in summer.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 夏天

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).