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雪

雪

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

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 雪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雪
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (彗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫘 *sqʰʷeds
彗 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids
篲 *sɢʷeds
鏏 *sɢʷeds
槥 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
轊 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
熭 *ɢʷeds, *ɢʷad
嘒 *qʰʷeːds
暳 *qʰʷeːds
嚖 *qʰʷeds
慧 *ɡʷeːds
蔧 *sɢʷids
雪 *sqʰʷed

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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
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/

Definitions

雪

  1. snow
    下雪  ―  xiàxuě  ―  to snow
  2. to wipe away; to clean
  3. (Cantonese) ice; ice product

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

雪

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

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

/juki1/ → /juki/

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

Noun

雪 ‎(hiragana ゆき, romaji yuki)

  1. snow
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 27-28:[2]
      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)

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00507-0, published 1968.

Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

雪 (tuyết)

  1. snow

Usage notes

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

References

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