冬
This is fuyu, meaning 'winter.' The two lower marks are an alteration of
冫
which means 'ice' or 'water,' and which is itself an 'abbreviation' of
氷
which means 'ice.'
The other part of the character—
夂
—is not used in any other character in Japanese (as far as I can tell), but it comes from an old character representing a thread skein, fastened by a pin, which signals 'the end' and 'fixation.' The notion is that winter is the 'frozen end of the year,' i.e., ice plus the end of of the skein.
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