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雪

xuě

snow

Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 彗 represents the sound.

Components
雨 meaning component

雨  Meaning component

yǔ, yù

  

rain

彗 sound,remnant component

彗  Sound Remnant component

huì

  

broom

Evolution

雪 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
雪 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
雪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

雪  

xuě

snow; wipe away shame, avenge; snowfall; CL:場|场[cháng]; to have the appearance of snow; to wipe away, off or out; to clean

雪  

Xuě

surname Xue

Most common words with 雪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雪

snow

滑雪

to ski

下雪

to snow

雪茄

cigar (loanword)

雪花

snowflake

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

鱈 鳕

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ot

sjwet

xuě

snow


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 23.1299% of movies

1137th most common character in movies

1003rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+96EA

Shuowen

“，凝雨說物者。”


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