雨

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雨

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• In mainland China, Japan, and Korea, the inner dots of the character are written as ⿰⺀⺀, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, the inner dots of the character are written as 冫 and its mirror image ⿱㇀丶.
• When this character is used as an upper radical component, the form is different depending on the script used.
  • For Ming typeface (明體/明朝体):
    • In mainland China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the radical component resembles ⻗ (U+2ED7) with four horizontal lines which is also the historical form used in the Kangxi dictionary.
    • In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the radical component resembles the character itself (with 冫 and its mirror image) but the lower right hook of 冂 is omitted.
  • For regular script (楷書):
    • In mainland China and Japan, the radical component resembles the character itself (with ⿰⺀⺀) but the lower right hook of 冂 is omitted.
    • In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the radical component resembles the character itself (with 冫 and its mirror image) but the lower right hook of 冂 is omitted.

Han character

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Radical 173 雨

雨 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一中月卜 (MLBY), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿻帀⿰⺀⺀(GJK) or ⿱一𠕒(HTV))

1. Kangxi radical #173, ⾬.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/雨
• 𠉴, 𫰺, 𢮳, 𣷌, 𮞛, 𣍾, 𣔯, 𫋃, 𨂎, 𫒧, 𩗿, 𬵗, 𨜄, 𪂕
• 𠭍, 𨗒, 𧌙, 𨗒, 䬠, 𩳧, 𩄮, 𧓑, 𡸹, 𦲸, 𣾙, 屚, 𢉀, 𪋉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1371, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42210
• Dae Jaweon: page 1878, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4057, character 1
• Unihan data for U+96E8

Further reading

• 雨 on Wikidata.Wikidata

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雨
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a cloud with drops of rain falling from it. (Compare Egyptian 𓇲.)

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• 雨 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 雨 (Cantonese)
• 雨 (Gan)
• yí (Hakka)
• ṳ̄ (Eastern Min)
• hō͘ (Southern Min)
• 雨 (Wu)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k/r/s-wa.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

雨

1. rain (Classifier: 陣／阵; 場／场)
2. ^† (figurative) friend
3. ^† (figurative) teaching; instruction

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

雨

1. (literary) to rain

   • 雨我公田，遂及我私。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yù wǒ gōng tián, suì jí wǒ sī.

     May it rain first on our public fields, and then come to our private!

2. (literary, of rain, snow, tears, etc.) to fall (like rain)
3. (literary) to moisten

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