Chinese Character Wiki
雨

yǔ, yù

rain

Pictograph of rain falling from a cloud.

Evolution

雨 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
雨 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
雨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
雨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
雨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

雨  

yǔ

rain; rainy; KangXi radical 173; CL:陣|阵[zhèn],場|场[cháng]

雨  

yù

to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wet

Most common words with 雨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雨

rain

下雨

to rain

暴风雨

rainstorm

大雨

heavy rain

暴雨

rainstorm

Component uses

Meaning component in 38 characters (7 verified)

電 雲 露 雪 零 霜 霝 震 霍 雾 霧 霸 霞 霑 霉 霆 雯 霄 霖 霎 霹 雳 靂 霓 雹 霭 霾 霁 霽 霰 霏 霈 雩 霪 霅 霂 霡 霢

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

雩

Iconic component in 3 characters (3 verified)

需 雷 屚

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

电

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ɢʷ(r)aʔ

hjuX

yǔ

rain

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ-s

hjuH

yù

rain (v.t.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 22.9377% of movies

1229th most common character in movies

928th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+96E8

Shuowen

“雨，水从雲下也。一象天，冂象雲，水霝其間也。，古文。”


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