夏
xiàXià HSK2

summer

夏 xià frequency
summer time word

这种花只在夏、秋两个季节开放。

zhè zhǒng huā zhǐ zài xià, qiū liǎng gè jì​jié kāi​fàng.

This flower only blooms during the summer and autumn seasons.

夏 Xià
Xia dynasty proper name
The Xia (or Hsia) dynasty, traditionally considered the first dynasty of China (c. 2000 BC).

作为中国首个王朝，夏的历史极其久远。

zuò​wéi Zhōng​guó shǒu gè wáng​cháo, Xià de lì​shǐ jí​qí jiǔ​yuǎn.

As China's first dynasty, the history of the Xia is extremely ancient.

Xia proper name
A common Chinese surname.

夏老师这学期教我们中文。

Xià lǎo​shī zhè xué​qī jiāo wǒ​men Zhōng​wén.

Teacher Xia is teaching us Chinese this semester.

Great Xia time word
A state during the Sixteen Kingdoms period (407–432 AD), also known as Hu Xia.

他在历史书中读到了有关十六国中夏的内容。

tā zài lì​shǐ shū zhōng dú​dào le yǒu​guān Shí​liù​guó Zhōng​xià de nèi​róng.

He read about the Xia state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in a history book.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,126th most common 128.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,144th most common 78.8 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.7 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
48.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+590F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)