雪
snow; CL:場|场[chang2]; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
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How 雪 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
雨 (semantic, “rain”) + 彐 (phonetic, jì)
How to remember it
snow · Heisig RSH #941
雨 rain + broom
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 彐
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 彐 (jì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 彐 sound component | jì | snout |
| 灵 | líng | spirit, soul; spiritual world |
| 浸 | jìn | to dip, to immerse, to soak; to percolate, to steep |
| 刍 | chú | to mow, to cut grass; hay, fodder |
Words containing 雪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白马雪山 | Bái mǎ Xuě shān | Baima Snow Mountains, up to 5430 m., in Dechen or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏… |
| 白雪公主 | Bái xuě Gōng zhǔ | Snow White |
| 车尔尼雪夫斯基 | Chē ěr ní xuě fū sī jī | Nikolai Chernyshevsky |
| 雪山太子 | Xuě shān Tài zǐ | Meili Snow Mountains in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zan… |
| 雪地车 | xuě dì chē | snowmobile |
| 雪巴人 | Xuě bā rén | (Tw) Sherpa |
| 风雪交加 | fēng xuě jiāo jiā | (idiom) stormy with wind and snow; blizzard-like (conditions) |
| 风花雪月 | fēng huā xuě yuè | wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substan… |
| 雪里红 | xuě lǐ hóng | variant of 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xue3 li3 hong2] |
| 林雪平 | Lín xuě píng | Linköping, city in southeast Sweden |
| 哈巴雪山 | Hā bā xuě shān | Mt Haba (Nakhi: golden flower), in Lijiang 麗江|丽江, northwest Yunnan |
| 大雪 | Dà xuě | Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December |
| 雪人 | xuě rén | snowman; yeti |
| 雪山 | xuě shān | snow-capped mountain |
| 冰天雪地 | bīng tiān xuě dì | a world of ice and snow |
| 雪地 | xuě dì | snow-covered ground |
| 小雪 | Xiǎo xuě | Xiaoxue or Lesser Snow, 20th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd November-6th December |
| 雅拉香波雪山 | Yǎ lā Xiāng bō xuě shān | Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefectu… |
| 玉龙雪山 | Yù lóng xuě shān | Mt Yulong or Jade dragon in Lijiang 麗江|丽江, northwest Yunnan |
| 白雪 | bái xuě | snow |