霜
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frost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting; (skin) cream
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 雨 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 霜
- Common rank
- #1,623
- Unicode
- U+971C
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Words with 霜
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 | sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roo… | |
| 金鸡纳霜 | quinine powder | |
| 雪上加霜 | (idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury | |
| 无霜期 | frost-free period | |
| 风霜雨雪 | (lit.) wind, frost, rain and snow (idiom); (fig.) all kinds of trials and hardships | |
| 风中烛，瓦上霜 | lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom); fig. (of sb's life) feeble; … | |
| 护手霜 | hand cream; hand lotion | |
| 黄柳霜 | Anna May Wong (1905-1961), Chinese American Hollywood actress | |
| 霜天 | freezing weather; frosty sky | |
| 白霜 | hoar frost | |
| 霜白 | frosty | |
| 霜花 | frost forming a pattern on a surface; rime | |
| 饱经风霜 | weather-beaten; having experienced the hardships of life | |
| 面霜 | facial cream (cosmetics) | |
| 风霜 | wind and frost; fig. hardships | |
| 眼霜 | eye cream | |
| 冷若冰霜 | as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid | |
| 结霜 | to frost up | |
| 霜条 | popsicle | |
| 冰霜 | (literary) ice formed in freezing weather as frost or icicles etc (often used as a metapho… |
Sound family
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