雪
雪 — seol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 눈 설
- Romanization
- seol
- English
- snow; wipe away shame, avenge
- Mandarin
- xuě
- Japanese on'yomi
- セツ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ゆき
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,131 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 雨 (173, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+96EA
Parts that make up 雪
- 雨 비 우 구름에서 떨어지는 빗방울비와 날씨
- ⺕ variant of 彑 돼지 머리짐승의 머리. ⺕ 로도 쓴다
How 雪 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 雪 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 雨, 彗.
Korean example words with 雪
- 서설瑞雪 Korean gloss: 상서로운 눈
- 설야雪野 Korean gloss: 눈에 덮인 들
- 설중雪中 Korean gloss: 눈이 쌓인 속
- 적설積雪 Korean gloss: 쌓여 있는 눈
- 설치雪恥 Korean gloss: 부끄러움을 씻음
- 춘설春雪 Korean gloss: 봄철에 오는 눈
- 대설大雪 Korean gloss: 아주 많이 오는 눈
- 신설新雪 Korean gloss: 새로 내려 쌓인 눈
- 제설製雪 Korean gloss: 인공적으로 눈을 만듦
- 촌설寸雪 Korean gloss: 한 치 정도 쌓인 눈
- 분설粉雪 Korean gloss: 조금씩 잘게 내리는 눈
- 세설細雪 Korean gloss: 조금씩 잘게 내리는 눈
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 雪
- 雪ゆき snow; snowfall
- 雪辱せつじょく vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss
- 積雪せきせつ fallen snow; snow cover
- 大雪おおゆき heavy snow; heavy snowfall; "major snow" solar term (approx. Dec. 7)
- 吹雪ふぶき snow storm; blizzard
- 雪崩なだれ avalanche; snowslide; avalanche
- 雪解けゆきどけ thawing of snow; thaw; thaw (in relations)
- 雪国ゆきぐに snow country; snowy region
- 降雪こうせつ snowfall; snow
- 雪だるまゆきだるま snowman
- 風雪ふうせつ wind and snow; snowstorm; blizzard
- 雪道ゆきみち snow-covered road
Other hanja read “설”
Other hanja with radical 雨
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences