Meaning & readings
winter
On’yomi トウ
Kun’yomi ふゆ
Origin
The character 冬 combines two visual elements that evoke the coldness of winter. The top part suggests a person or form turning inward, while the bottom part, made of two vertical lines, represents ice or frost. Together, these components create a picture of the season when cold dominates the landscape and water freezes. The combined imagery conveys the essential quality of winter as the cold, icy time of year.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 夂
- 冫
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 15
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1090 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+051AC