冬dōngwinter
How 冬 is written
Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.
Examples
冬天很冷。
Dōngtiān hěn lěng.
Winter is very cold.
- 冬天dōngtiānwinter
- 很hěnvery
- 冷lěngcold
冬天我不喜欢出门。
Dōngtiān wǒ bù xǐhuān chū mén.
I don't like going out in winter.
- 冬天dōngtiānwinter
- 我wǒI
- 不bùno
- 喜欢xǐhuānto like
- 出chūto go out
- 门méndoor
Not to be confused with
Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.
- 懂
- 东dōngeast
- 冻