雪
Tap the pinyin to hear it
snow; CL:場|场[chang2]; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 雨 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 雪
- Common rank
- #447
- Unicode
- U+96EA
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
snow · Heisig RSH #941
雨 rain + broom
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 雪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白马雪山 | Baima Snow Mountains, up to 5430 m., in Dechen or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏… | |
| 白雪公主 | Snow White | |
| 车尔尼雪夫斯基 | Nikolai Chernyshevsky | |
| 雪山太子 | 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 | snowmobile | |
| 雪巴人 | (Tw) Sherpa | |
| 风雪交加 | (idiom) stormy with wind and snow; blizzard-like (conditions) | |
| 风花雪月 | wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substan… | |
| 雪里红 | variant of 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xue3 li3 hong2] | |
| 林雪平 | Linköping, city in southeast Sweden | |
| 哈巴雪山 | Mt Haba (Nakhi: golden flower), in Lijiang 麗江|丽江, northwest Yunnan | |
| 大雪 | 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 | snowman; yeti | |
| 雪山 | snow-capped mountain | |
| 冰天雪地 | a world of ice and snow | |
| 雪地 | snow-covered ground | |
| 小雪 | 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 | Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefectu… | |
| 玉龙雪山 | Mt Yulong or Jade dragon in Lijiang 麗江|丽江, northwest Yunnan | |
| 白雪 | snow |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 彐 — compare how they read.