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旺季

wàngjì

peak season; busy season

Travelers with suitcases queue outside a hotel, the beach packed behind
Memory picture

Characters in this word

旺 wàng

Strokes
8
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 王 king, ruler
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

季 jì

Strokes
8
Radical
子 — son, child
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 子 son, child
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 旅游旺季一到,酒店不仅涨价,连普通餐馆也需要提前预订。 Lǚyóu wàngjì yí dào, jiǔdiàn bùjǐn zhǎngjià, lián pǔtōng cānguǎn yě xūyào tíqián yùdìng. Once the tourist peak season arrives, hotels raise prices and even ordinary restaurants require advance bookings.
  • 春节是旅游旺季,机票和酒店都很难订。 Chūnjié shì lǚyóu wàngjì, jīpiào hé jiǔdiàn dōu hěn nán dìng. The Spring Festival is the tourist peak season, so plane tickets and hotels are hard to book.
  • 旺季时游客太多,我们干脆选择淡季出行。 Wàngjì shí yóukè tài duō, wǒmen gāncuì xuǎnzé dànjì chūxíng. There are too many tourists in the peak season, so we simply choose to travel in the low season.

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