"Winter" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 dōng tiān winter / CL:個|个[ge4]
 dōng jì winter
 dōng lìng winter / winter climate
 sì jì four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
 hán jià winter vacation
 yán hán bitter cold / severe winter
 dōng ào huì Winter Olympics
 Dōng zhì Winter Solstice, 22nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 / 22nd December-5th January
 sì shí the four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
 dòng sǐ to freeze to death / to die off in winter
 guò dōng to get through the winter
 yuè dōng to pass the winter / to overwinter / to live through the winter
 yán dōng severe winter
 Bù dá lā gōng Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
 chū dōng early winter
 lóng dōng midwinter / the depth of winter
 dōng gū donko shiitake mushroom, a prized type of shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated in winter, with thick flesh and partially open cap
 dōng sǔn winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)
 yíng chūn huā winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)
 Lì dōng Lidong or Start of Winter, 19th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 / 7th-21st November
 dōng yī winter clothes
 hán chán cicada in winter / fig. mournful sound
 fáng hán fú overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
 hán yī winter clothing
 bì hán to escape the cold by going on a winter holiday
 shǔ jiǔ nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
 ruì xiāng winter daphne
 dōng xián slack winter season (farming)
 shòu to hunt / to go hunting (as winter sport in former times) / hunting dog / imperial tour
 Aī ěr jīn 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
 Dōng gōng Winter Palace (St Petersburg) / Hermitage Museum
 hé dōng tiān nuclear winter
 sān jiǔ tiān the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year
 jiāo jiǔ the coldest period of the year / three nine day periods after the winter solstice
 dōng xià winter and summer
 Dōng zhì diǎn the winter solstice
 dōng yùn huì winter games
 jì dōng final month of winter (i.e. twelfth month of lunar calendar)
 fēng hé qī freezing over of river in winter
 shǔ jiǔ tiān nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
 shǔ jiǔ hán tiān nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
 rì zhì solstice / the winter solstice 冬至 / and summer solstice 夏至
 chūn xià qiū dōng the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter
 chūn shēng , xià zhǎng , qiū shōu , dōng cáng sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom)
 zhòu duǎn yè cháng the winter days are short and the nights long (idiom)
 duǎn zhì the winter solstice
 hóng gū niang Chinese lantern plant / winter cherry / strawberry ground-cherry / Physalis alkekengi
 suān jiāng Chinese lantern plant / winter cherry / strawberry ground-cherry / Physalis alkekengi
 jìng ruò hán chán as quiet as a cicada in winter (idiom)
 E2 ěr jīn 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
 dōng jì zuò zhàn néng lì winter warfare capability
  United Nations Emergency Winter Relief Project
  winter Antarctic stratospheric circumpolar vortex
 nán fēi guò dōng (of birds) to migrate south for the winter
 dōng bìng xià zhì to treat winter diseases in the summer (TCM)
 dōng gēng winter plowing
 Bīng Dūn dūn Bing Dwen Dwen (mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a panda wearing a bodysuit of transparent ice)
 Dōng Cán ào huì Winter Paralympics
 chūn jiǔ banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring
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