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winter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
winter vacation
HSK 4
winter
HSK 4
four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
HSK 7-9
Lidong or Start of Winter, 19th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st November
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  *冬* | 冬* | *冬
winter
early winter
quilted cotton trousers / cotton-padded trousers (worn in winter)
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
Winter Olympics
bitter cold / severe winter
to pass the winter / to overwinter / to live through the winter
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  *狩* | 狩* | *狩
to hunt / to go hunting (as winter sport in former times) / hunting dog / imperial tour
to get through the winter
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  *腊* | 腊* | *腊
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
cold winter
winter clothing
austere / stern / harsh / somber and desolate (autumn or winter)
winter clothes
Winter Solstice, 22nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd December-5th January
severe winter
overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
winter daphne
midwinter / the depth of winter
winter / winter climate
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring
to escape the cold by going on a winter holiday
donko shiitake mushroom, a prized type of shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated in winter, with thick flesh and partially open cap
winter games
winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
slack winter season (farming)
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
winter plowing
solstice / the winter solstice 冬至 and summer solstice 夏至
Asian Winter Games
final month of winter (i.e. twelfth month of lunar calendar)
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
winter and summer
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
to gain weight in the fall (to prepare for winter)
Chinese lantern plant / winter cherry / strawberry ground-cherry / Physalis alkekengi
to treat winter diseases in the summer (TCM)
the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom)
the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter
nuclear winter
the winter solstice
Chinese lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi); winter cherry; strawberry ground-cherry / creeping oxalis (Oxalis corniculata)
Winter Palace (St Petersburg) / Hermitage Museum
Bing Dwen Dwen (mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a panda wearing a bodysuit of transparent ice)
the winter solstice
the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year
the coldest period of the year / three nine day periods after the winter solstice
winter break
Winter Paralympics
(of birds) to migrate south for the winter
the four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
weather phenomenon characterized by condensation of warm moist air on cool surfaces during the transition from winter to spring in Southern China
freezing over of river in winter
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810


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