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Chinese symbol for “midwinter”

隆冬
lóng dōng
midwinter; the depth of winter

The closest CC-CEDICT match for midwinter is 隆冬 (lóng dōng), defined as: midwinter; the depth of winter.

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Characters and stroke order

隆 lóng
prosperous, plentiful, abundant
radical 170 ⾩ · 12 strokes
冬 dōng
winter, 11th lunar month
radical 15 ⼎ · 5 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 隆冬.

WordPinyinMeaning
隆重lóng zhònggrand; prosperous
克隆kè lóng(biology) (loanword) to clone; a clone; (fig.) to make an identical copy of (a website etc)
兴隆 (興隆)xīng lóngprosperous; thriving
隆起lóng qǐto swell; to bulge
隆胸lóng xiōngto enlarge the breasts; breast enlargement
隆隆lóng lóngrumble
冬天dōng tiānwinter
冬季dōng jìwinter

See also: Japanese symbol for “midwinter”.

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.