雪

Character	雪 U+96EA, 雪
Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96EA
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
← 雩 [U+96E9] [U+96EB] 雫 →

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

雪 (radical 173 雨+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸一 (MBSM), four-corner 1017₇/1017₄, composition ⿱⻗彐)

Derived charactersEdit

• 膤, 鱈

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1371, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42216
• Dae Jaweon: page 1878, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4058, character 4
• Unihan data for U+96EA

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		雪

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 雪
Oracle bone script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ancient simplification of 䨮, which is in turn phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷed): semantic ⻗ + phonetic 彗 ‎(OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids).

EtymologyEdit

Starostin compared this with Tibetan སད ‎(sad, “frost, cold air, cold, coldness”). This may be unlikely considering the phonetic part of this character.

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuě (xue³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siet
• Min Dong (BUC): siók
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): seh / soat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): soh⁴

• Wu (Wiktionary): xiq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xuě
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsüeh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheue
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕɥ̯œ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syut³
    • Yale: syut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siet
    • Hakka Romanization System: xied`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiad⁵
    • IPA: /ɕi̯et̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siók
    • IPA ^(key): /suɔʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seh / soat
    • Tâi-lô: seh / suat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seq, soad
    • IPA (Taipei): /seʔ³²/, /suat̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /seʔ³²/, /suat̚³²/
    • Note: seh - colloquial; soat - literary.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: soh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: soh
    • IPA ^(key): /soʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xiq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɪʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /siuᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	雪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相絕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swiat̚/
Li Rong	/siuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xue

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[s]ot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷed/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuě
Middle Chinese	‹ sjwet ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ot/
English	snow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雪
Reading #	1/1
No.	5477
Phonetic component	彗
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	雪
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷed/

DefinitionsEdit

雪

1. snow

   下雪  ―  xiàxuě  ―  to snow

2. to wipe away; to clean
3. (Cantonese) ice; ice product

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 雪

• 似雪
• 冰雪
• 單板滑雪／单板滑雪
• 大雪 (dàxuě)
• 小雪 (xiǎoxuě)
• 昭雪
• 暴風雪／暴风雪 (bàofēngxuě)
• 洗雪 (xǐxuě)
• 浣雪
• 湔雪
• 滑雪 (huáxuě)
• 瑞雪 (ruìxuě)
• 申雪
• 白雪 (báixuě)
• 積雪／积雪 (jīxuě)
• 積雪草／积雪草
• 紫雪 (zǐxuě)
• 終年積雪／终年积雪
• 聚螢映雪／聚萤映雪
• 融雪
• 跳臺滑雪／跳台滑雪
• 踏雪
• 障礙滑雪／障碍滑雪
• 雪上加霜 (xuěshàng-jiāshuāng)
• 雪中送炭 (xuězhōngsòngtàn)
• 雪亮
• 雪人 (xuěrén)
• 雪冤

• 雪原
• 雪地
• 雪城
• 雪堆
• 雪壓／雪压
• 雪山
• 雪山林
• 雪峰
• 雪崩 (xuěbēng)
• 雪恥／雪耻 (xuěchǐ)
• 雪恨 (xuěhèn)
• 雪景 (xuějǐng)
• 雪暴
• 雪松
• 雪板 (xuěbǎn)
• 雪條／雪条
• 雪梨 (Xuělí)
• 雪梨酒
• 雪橇 (xuěqiāo)
• 雪櫃／雪柜 (xuěguì)
• 雪泥
• 雪泥鴻爪／雪泥鸿爪
• 雪災／雪灾
• 雪片 (xuěpiàn)
• 雪球 (xuěqiú)
• 雪白 (xuěbái)
• 雪盲

• 雪碧
• 雪窖冰天
• 雪糕 (xuěgāo)
• 雪線／雪线
• 雪膽／雪胆
• 雪花 (xuěhuā)
• 雪花膏
• 雪茄 (xuějiā)
• 雪茄煙／雪茄烟
• 雪蓮／雪莲
• 雪蓮花／雪莲花
• 雪裡送炭／雪里送炭
• 雪裡開／雪里开
• 雪豹 (xuěbào)
• 雪貂 (xuědiāo)
• 雪路
• 雪車／雪车 (xuěchē)
• 雪里蕻
• 雪野
• 雪鐵龍／雪铁龙
• 雪青
• 雪鞋
• 雪頓／雪顿
• 雪頓節／雪顿节
• 飛雪／飞雪
• 飛鴻踏雪／飞鸿踏雪
• 鵝毛大雪／鹅毛大雪

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

雪

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: せち (sechi)
• Kan’on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: ゆき (yuki), すすぐ (雪ぐ, susugu), そそぐ (雪ぐ, sosogu)
• Nanori: ぶき (buki), せ (se), きよ (kiyo), きよみ (kiyomi), まよむ (mayomu), そそぐ (sosogu)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

雪辱 (せつじょく) ‎(setsujoku): vindication, revenge 雪崩 (なだれ) ‎(nadare): snow avalanche 初雪 (はつゆき) ‎(hatsuyuki): first snow (of the winter season) 雪女 (ゆきおんな) ‎(yuki onna): snow woman, snow fairy 雪原 (せつげん) ‎(setsugen): snow field

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
雪
ゆき Grade: 2
kun'yomi

/juki₁/ → /juki/

From Old Japanese.

PronunciationEdit

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ゆき​ [yùkíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [jɯᵝkʲi]

NounEdit

雪 ‎(hiragana ゆき, romaji yuki)

1. snow
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 27-28:

     雪 [...] 和名由岐、日本紀私記云、泡雪阿和由岐、其弱如水沫故云沫雪也

2. (metaphoric) white hair
3. cod (fish) (from an abbreviation of the standard kanji for cod, 鱈)

SynonymsEdit

• (snow): (rare) 玉塵 (ぎょくじん) ‎(gyokujin)

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

雪 • ‎(seol) (hangeul 설, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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CompoundsEdit

• 雪濃湯
• 初雪 first snow

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

雪 (tuyết)

1. snow

Usage notesEdit

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for snow is tuyết.

ReferencesEdit

• www.chunom.org