Weather and seasons 18
Hot and cold, rain and snow, and the four seasons.
Practise
Its words
What it's like 7
- 天气 tiān qì weather
- 冷 lěng cold
- 热 rè hot
- 暖和 nuǎn huo warm
- 凉快 liáng kuai nice and cool
- 晴 qíng sunny; clear
- 阴 yīn cloudy; overcast
今天天气怎么样?今天天氣怎麼樣? asks what the weather's like today. 很冷, 不太热不太熱: it's cold, it's not too hot.
Rain, snow and wind 7
- 下雨 xià yǔ to rain
- 下雪 xià xuě to snow
- 雨 yǔ rain
- 雪 xuě snow
- 风 fēng wind
- 刮风 guā fēng to be windy
- 太阳 tài yang the sun
Rain and snow come down: 下雨, 下雪. 下雨了! It's raining. Wind blows, 刮: 刮风了颳風了, the wind's got up.
Seasons 4
Each season is a 天, a stretch of days: 春天, 夏天, 秋天, 冬天. 北京的冬天很冷: winter in Beijing is cold.