霜
frost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting; (skin) cream
17 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,623 U+971C
How 霜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
雨 (semantic, “rain”) + 相 (phonetic, xiāng)
How to remember it
frost · Heisig RSH #427
weather + 相 one another
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 相
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 相 (xiāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相 sound component | xiāng | mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other |
| 想 | xiǎng | to believe, to wish for; to consider, to plan, to think |
| 箱 | xiāng | box, case; chest, trunk |
| 湘 | xiāng | Hunan province; the Xiangjiang river |
| 厢 | xiāng | side-room, wing; theatre box |
| 葙 | xiāng | feather cockscomb; Celosia argentea |
| 缃 | xiāng | light-yellow color |
Words containing 霜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 | gè rén zì sǎo mén qián xuě , mò guǎn tā jiā wǎ shàng shuāng | sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roo… |
| 金鸡纳霜 | jīn jī nà shuāng | quinine powder |
| 雪上加霜 | xuě shàng jiā shuāng | (idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury |
| 无霜期 | wú shuāng qī | frost-free period |
| 风霜雨雪 | fēng shuāng yǔ xuě | (lit.) wind, frost, rain and snow (idiom); (fig.) all kinds of trials and hardships |
| 风中烛，瓦上霜 | fēng zhōng zhú , wǎ shàng shuāng | lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom); fig. (of sb's life) feeble; … |
| 护手霜 | hù shǒu shuāng | hand cream; hand lotion |
| 黄柳霜 | Huáng Liǔ shuāng | Anna May Wong (1905-1961), Chinese American Hollywood actress |
| 霜天 | shuāng tiān | freezing weather; frosty sky |
| 白霜 | bái shuāng | hoar frost |
| 霜白 | shuāng bái | frosty |
| 霜花 | shuāng huā | frost forming a pattern on a surface; rime |
| 饱经风霜 | bǎo jīng fēng shuāng | weather-beaten; having experienced the hardships of life |
| 面霜 | miàn shuāng | facial cream (cosmetics) |
| 风霜 | fēng shuāng | wind and frost; fig. hardships |
| 眼霜 | yǎn shuāng | eye cream |
| 冷若冰霜 | lěng ruò bīng shuāng | as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid |
| 结霜 | jié shuāng | to frost up |
| 霜条 | shuāng tiáo | popsicle |
| 冰霜 | bīng shuāng | (literary) ice formed in freezing weather as frost or icicles etc (often used as a metapho… |