气候
Meaning
- (meteorology) climate
- (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs)
Example sentence
我国是温带气候。
Our country's climate is temperate.
Characters in 气候
- 气 qì gas; air
- 候 hòu to wait; time, season
气 air plus 候, a season. The seasonal air, hence climate — where 天气 is the weather of a day.