Learn Four Seasons in Chinese: Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall and Winter in Chinese and Seasons Divided in China

Core Chinese Characters for Seasons

“季节”的核心字

As a rule, there's only one major Chinese character commonly used to express the "Season" in Chinese or the four seasons expressions in Chinese, to help distinguish the following seasons' time in Chinese from other time expressions, such as the Chinese time expressions for days, dates, days of the week, months, years, etc.

在汉语里，通常仅用一个汉字就能表达以“季节”为基准的、或与“四季”相关的内容，以区分其他如日、月、年等时间词。

The core characters signal four "Seasons" in Chinese, as below:
表明以“季节”为时间基准的中文核心字，如下：

• 季 (Jì) - to indicate a "season" in Chinese time expressions.
  季 - 中文时间语中用来指示某个“季节”的汉字。
  • The major and commonly-used Chinese character to signal the season as a unit of time in Chinese.
    表示以“季节”为时间单位的汉字；
  • often appears in both written and spoken Chinese seasonal expressions.
    常用于口语、书面语中表示季节；
  • originally means the last one ranking in an order, such as "季春 (jì chūn) - the third month of Spring", "季军 (jì jūn) - the third place of the ranking".
    中文里，本义指排行最末尾的一个，比如“季春（春季里第三个月）”、“季军（前三名内最末）”。
• 天 (Tiān) - commonly means the "day" in Chinese, sometimes used to describe the days of some season.
  天 - 主要指“日子”，也用来形容季节里的日子。
  • a casual Chinese character to mean the day or sometimes indicate the season in the spoken Chinese time expressions, for example, "夏天 (xià tiān) - summer or summer days.
    表达以“日”为时间段的口头语，有时也用于口头上指某个季节，比如“夏天”；
  • often appears in both spoken and written Chinese. See sample expressions below.
    常出现在口语及中文写作中；
  • and its original meaning refers to the sky.
    本义指天空。
• 日 (Rì) - usually means a "day" in Chinese, sometimes used to describe the days in some season.
  日 - 通常指“日子”，有时也形容季节里的日子。
  • a formal Chinese character to signal a day or some day of a period, such as using "夏日" to mention some day in summer.
    表达以“日”为时间段的书面用语，或指某段时间内的某一天，如“夏日”指夏季的某日；
  • often appears in written Chinese and more formal time expressions to emphasize some day during the season or period.
    常出现在书面语及中文写作中，用来强调某个季节中或某个时间段内的某一天；
  • and its original meaning refers to the sun.
    本义指太阳。

Learn Four Seasons in Chinese

学会用中文表达“四季”

To learn about Four Seasons in Chinese and their writings, one formula below is required to remember.
仅需记住一个公式，就能学会中文里表达“四季”的词语。

Each Season in Chinese =

Season Name + Core Characters for Seasons

春/夏/秋/冬 + “季”或“天”或“日” = 表示某个季节

• 四季 - (sì jì) - Four seasons collectively in Chinese
• 春季 - (chūn jì) - Spring in Chinese
• 夏季 - (xià jì) - Summer in Chinese
• 秋季 - (qiū jì) - Autumn or Fall in Chinese
• 冬季 - (dōng jì) - Winter in Chinese

• 春天 - (chūn tiān) - Spring in Chinese
• 夏天 - (xià tiān) - Summer in Chinese
• 秋天 - (qiū tiān) - Autumn or Fall in Chinese
• 冬天 - (dōng tiān) - Winter in Chinese

• 春日 - (chūn rì) - To emphasize some day of the spring in Chinese
• 夏日 - (xià rì) - To emphasize some day of the summer in Chinese
• 秋日 - (qiū rì) - To emphasize some day of the autumn or fall in Chinese
• 冬日 - (dōng rì) - To emphasize some day of the winter in Chinese

More Chinese Seasons' Expressions

更多“四季”相关的中文表达

• 去年春季 - (qù nián chūn jì) - Last spring in Chinese
• 这个夏天 - (zhè gè xià tiān) - This summer in Chinese
• 秋天的早晨 - (qiū tiān de zǎo chén) - Autumn morning in Chinese
• 冬日傍晚 - (dōng rì bàng wǎn) - Winter dusk in Chinese
• 夏日微风 - (xià rì wēi fēng) - Summer breeze in Chinese

• 春天来了 - (chūn tiān lái le) - Spring is coming/falls
• 在夏天 - (zài xià tiān) - In summer (time)
• 进入秋季 - (jìn rù qiū jì) - Enter/into the autumn
• 到冬天了 - (dào dōng tiān le) - It's winter
• 从春天到秋天 - (cóng chūn tiān dào qiū tiān) - From spring to autumn
• 到了春季 - (dào le chūn jì) - Till/by spring

When Is The Chinese Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter? Tell Two Major Dividings.

中国主流的季节划分法

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