Chinese symbol for “holly”
冬青
dōng qīng
holly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for holly is 冬青 (dōng qīng), defined as: holly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “holly”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冬青.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冬天 | dōng tiān | winter |
| 冬季 | dōng jì | winter |
| 寒冬 | hán dōng | cold winter |
| 冬眠 | dōng mián | to hibernate; hibernation |
| 过冬 (過冬) | guò dōng | to get through the winter |
| 冬日 | dōng rì | wintertime |
| 青年 | qīng nián | youth; youthful years |
| 青少年 | qīng shào nián | adolescent; youth |
See also: Japanese symbol for “holly”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.