寒暑 (hon4 syu2 | han2 shu3) : year

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寒暑

hon4 syu2

han2 shu3

A poetic way of saying a year. The two characters meaning 'cold' and 'hot' stand in place of two seasons of the year, winter 冬天 and summer 夏天.

Classifier: 個

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 395,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

寒暑

This word has been viewed 2229 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by rathpy on 19th Mar 2005 21:20 and last edited on 23rd Oct 2009 15:14

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寒 hon4 - cold; wintry; chilly
暑 syu2 - summer, hot, summer heat

1 compounds containing this word:

寒暑表 - thermometer, temperature gauge

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我在法國渡過了三個寒暑國
I spent three winters and summers in France.
["three winters and summers" symbolizes three years.]

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