shuāng
frost
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
shuāng
frost; crystallized; candied; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting; (skin) cream
Most common words with 霜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
frost | ||
to make things worse in a bad situation | ||
suntan lotion | ||
white arsenic | ||
facial cream (cosmetics) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]raŋ | srjang | shuāng | hoar-frost |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.6292% of movies
2511th most common character in movies
2631st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+971C |
Shuowen | “霜，喪也，成物者。从雨，相聲。” |
Sources
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