寒衣
hán yī
Pinyin

Definition

寒衣
 - 
hán yī
  1. winter clothing

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大衣
dà yī
  1. 1 overcoat
  2. 2 topcoat
  3. 3 cloak
  4. 4 classifier: 件 jiàn
寒假
hán jià
  1. 1 winter vacation
寒冷
hán lěng
  1. 1 cold (climate)
  2. 2 frigid
  3. 3 very cold
毛衣
máo yī
  1. 1 (wool) sweater
  2. 2 classifier: 件 jiàn
衣服
yī fu
  1. 1 clothes
  2. 2 classifier: 件 jiàn
  3. 3 classifier: 套 tào

Idioms (20)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 lack of sticking power
  4. 4 short attention span
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒
bīng dòng sān chǐ , fēi yī rì zhī hán
  1. 1 three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
唇亡齿寒
chún wáng chǐ hán
  1. 1 lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
啼饥号寒
tí jī háo hán
  1. 1 hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty

Sample Sentences

是鬼节，其实中国有三大鬼节。除了农历七月十五，还有清明节和寒衣节。寒衣节就是农历十月初一。
shì guǐjié ，qíshí Zhōngguó yǒu sān dà guǐjié 。chúle nónglì qīyuèshíwǔ ，hái yǒu qīngmíngjié hé hányījié 。hányījié jiùshì nónglì shíyuèchūyī 。
It's the Ghost Festival. Actually in China there are three Ghost Festivals. Other than the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there is also Tomb-Sweeping Day and Winter Clothing Day. Winter clothing day is the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar.
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