夏
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summer
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 夊 +7
- Structure
- Top–middle–bottom 上中下
- Traditional
- 夏
- Common rank
- #863
- Unicode
- U+590F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 夏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宁夏回族自治区 | Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, capital Yinchuan 銀川市|银川市[Yin2 chuan1 Shi4] (short name 寧|宁[… | |
| 夏尔巴人 | Sherpa | |
| 夏洛特阿马利亚 | Charlotte Amalie, capital of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) | |
| 临夏回族自治州 | Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3] | |
| 西夏区 | Xixia, a district of Yinchuan City 銀川市|银川市[Yin2 chuan1 Shi4], Ningxia | |
| 夏虫不可以语冰 | a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom) | |
| 夏河县 | Xiahe, a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zh… | |
| 江夏区 | Jiangxia, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 夏黄公 | Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公|黄石公[Huang2 Shi2 gong1] (dates of birth and d… | |
| 夏时制 | daylight saving time | |
| 金夏沙 | Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Tw) | |
| 夏正民 | Justice Michael Hartmann (1944-), Hong Kong High Court judge | |
| 春生，夏长，秋收，冬藏 | sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom) | |
| 华夏银行 | Huaxia Bank | |
| 夏克提 | Shakti (Hinduism) | |
| 临夏县 | Linxia, a county in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi… | |
| 大夏 | Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country | |
| 临夏市 | Linxia, a county-level city in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 … | |
| 夏县 | Xia County or Xiaxian, a county in Yuncheng City 運城市|运城市[Yun4 cheng2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 夏天 | summer; CL:個|个[ge4] |
Sound family
These characters use 夏 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夏 sound part | summer; the Xia or Hsia dynasty | |
| 厦 | large building; mansion | |
| 嗄 | hoarse |