雪
Meanings
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- 1.snow
- 2.CL:场[cháng]
- 3.(literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
- 1.surname Xue
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Wiktionary
- 1.snow
- 2.to snow
- 3.to wipe away; to clean
- 4.ice; product containing ice
- 5.to refrigerate; to store in the refrigerator
- 6.to set aside; to shelve
- 7.a surname, Xue
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Etymology
Ancient simplification of 䨮, which is in turn phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sqʰʷed): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids). Schuessler (2007) considers this to be related to Kra-Dai words: Proto-Tai *hnəiᴬ¹ (“snow”), Proto-Kam-Sui *ʔnuːi¹ (“snow”). Starostin reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suăt (“snow”), comparing this with Tibetan སད (sad, “frost, cold air, cold, coldness”), but this connection may be unlikely considering the phonetic part of this character.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
雪消失了。
The snow has disappeared.
我很喜歡雪。
I like snow a lot.
你喜欢雪吗？
Do you like snow?
雪下了一週。
It snowed all week.
昨晚下了雪。
It snowed last night.
雪下得很大。
It's snowing heavily.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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