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季 — season; the last month of a season

Pinyin
jì · Jì
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — jì, Jì — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 季: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

季 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 季 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 季jìseason; the last month of a seasonHSK 3
  2. 季节jìjiétime; season; periodHSK 3
  3. 四季sìjìfour seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]HSK 3
  4. 季度jìdùquarter of a year; seasonHSK 5
  5. 季军jìjūnthird in a race; bronze medalistHSK 6
  6. 淡季dànjìoff season; slow business seasonHSK 7–9
  7. 赛季sàijìseasonHSK 7–9
  8. 旺季wàngjìbusy season; peak periodHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.