雪

Stroke order

雪 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸一 (MBSM), four-corner 1017₇ or 1017₄, composition ⿱⻗𫜹(GJ) or ⿱⻗⺕(HTK))

• 𠽌, 𡐅, 𡠭, 𢳬, 膤, 樰, 𬎅, 𫟀, 𫃽, 艝, 轌, 鱈(鳕), 𠞯, 𫕣, 𬝹, 𤍱

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

Historical forms of the character 雪
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ancient simplification of 䨮, which is in turn phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sqʰʷed) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids).

Schuessler (2007) considers this to be related to Kra-Dai words: Proto-Tai *hnəiᴬ¹ (“snow”), Proto-Kam-Sui *ʔnuːi¹ (“snow”).

Starostin reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suăt (“snow”), comparing this with Tibetan སད (sad, “frost, cold air, cold, coldness”), but this connection may be unlikely considering the phonetic part of this character.

雪

1. snow

   下雪  ―  xiàxuě  ―  to snow

2. ^† to snow

   • 晚來天欲雪，能飲一杯無？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     晚来天欲雪，能饮一杯无？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 白居易《問劉十九》

     Wǎn lái tiān yù xuě, néng yǐn yī bēi wú?

     Night comes and the sky seems like it might snow; could you drink a cup?

3. to wipe away; to clean

   • 朝食後，告辭天只前，則教「以好赴，大雪國辱。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     朝食后，告辞天只前，则教「以好赴，大雪国辱。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1594, 李舜臣 (Yi Sun-sin), 《亂中日記》 (War Diary of Admiral Yi)

     Zhāoshí hòu, gàocí tiānzhǐ qián, zé jiào “yǐ hǎo fù, dà xuě guó rǔ.”

     After the morning meal, I said my farewells to Mother. Then she instructed me: "Go well; fully cleanse national humiliation."

4. (dialectal) ice; product containing ice
5. (Cantonese) to refrigerate; to store in the refrigerator
6. (Cantonese, figuratively) to set aside; to shelve
7. (Malaysia, Singapore) Short for 雪蘭莪／雪兰莪 (Xuělán'é, “Selangor”).
8. a surname: Xue

• (snow):

• (to snow):

• (to wipe away): 洗刷 (xǐshuā)
• (ice):

Others:

• → Zhuang: siet

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04469
• “雪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “雪”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 271.

Shinjitai	雪
Kyūjitai [1]	雪󠄁 雪+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	雪󠄃 雪+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. snow
2. white as snow
3. cleanse

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

 雪 on Japanese Wikipedia

⟨yuki₁⟩ → */jukʲi/ → /juki/

From Old Japanese.^[2] Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.^[3]

Also found once in the Man'yōshū in a so-called 東歌 (Azuma uta, literally “eastern song”) in the eastern dialect of Old Japanese, realized as ⟨yo₂ki₁⟩.^[4]

Reconstructed by some as deriving from Proto-Japonic *yoki.

• (Tokyo) ゆき (Odaka – )^[5]
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雪(ゆき) • (yuki) 

1. snow

   Synonym: 玉塵 (gyokujin)

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 1, pages 27-28:
     ^[6]

     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

     Snow (in Japanese "yuki"), the Nihon Shoki Shiki as awayuki (light snowfall), said to be weak as foamy water

2. something white as snow
3. white hair
   • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 1, poem 8)

     春(はる)の日(ひ)の光(ひかり)にあたる我(われ)なれどかしらの雪(ゆき)となるぞわびしき

     haru no hi no hikari ni ataru ware naredo kashira no yuki to naru zo wabishiki

     (please add an English translation of this example)

4. shaved ice

   Synonym: かき氷 (kakigōri)

5. small pieces of paper used to imitate snow
6. (archaic women's speech) a turnip or daikon
7. (archaic women's speech) Abbreviation of 鱈 (tara): a codfish

   Synonym: 雪の下 (yukinoshita)

8. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of snowflakes
9. Short for 八朔の雪 (hassaku no yuki): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.