雪

xuě

snow

surname Xue; CL:場|场[chang2]; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)

rain (雨) + phonetic (彐) = snow

雨 is the rain radical, anchoring this character in precipitation. 彐 mainly contributes to the sound xuě; the rain radical carries the meaning.

雨+彐→雪
彐A claw-like component with no direct semantic relevance herePhonetic
雨RainSemantic

外面在下雪,地上白了一层。

wài miàn zài xià xuě , dì shàng bái le yī céng 。

It is snowing outside, and the ground has turned white.

今年冬天的雪比去年多很多。

jīn nián dōng tiān de xuě bǐ qù nián duō hěn duō 。

This winter's snow is much more than last year's.

Words with 雪

雪山

xuě shān

snow-capped mountain

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

报仇雪恨

bào chóu xuě hèn

to take revenge and wipe out a grudge (idiom)

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

铲雪车

chǎn xuě chē

snowplow

阿拉斯加雪橇犬

ā lā sī jiā xuě qiāo quǎn

Alaskan malamute

阿尔泰雪鸡

ā ěr tài xuě jī

(bird species of China) Altai snowcock (Tetraogallus altaicus)

降雪

jiàng xuě

to snow

雪崩

xuě bēng

avalanche

阳春白雪

yáng chūn bái xuě

melodies of the elite in the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]

障碍滑雪

zhàng ài huá xuě

(snow skiing) slalom

雅拉雪山

yǎ lā xuě shān

Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan

More characters with 雨

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