The Chinese Radical: 冬


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winter    冬

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
end, finish, death
zhōng
Left: thread 纟/, right: winter (With an upturned foot on the ice - it's winter)
The thread (of life) comes in winter to an end with the death.
JLPT HSK 3
picture, diagram, drawing, chart

Frame and inside: Winter: (With an upturned foot on the ice - it's winter) [ is typically seen as image of sitting cross-legged]
In the frame is a winterly picture.
JLPT HSK 3
winter
dōng
Top: sitting cross-legged or upturned foot , below: ice ( is a picture of sb. sitting cross-legged, but often also used as: upturned foot)
With an upturned foot on the ice: It is winter.
JLPT HSK 3
(it) hurts, ache, pain, sore
téng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: winter (With an upturned foot on the ice in the winter.)
A disease like winter: It hurts.
JLPT no HSK
boom (of a drum), a thumping sound
dōng
Left: mouth , right: winter (With an upturned foot on the ice - it's winter.)
The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when sb. with an upturned foot is falling on the ice is: boom!
JLPT no HSK
surname Tong
tóng
Left: person , right: winter (With an upturned foot on the ice - it's winter.)
This person's name is: winter, Mr. Tong.

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