雪

雪 (radical 173, 雨+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸一 (MBSM), four-corner 1017₇ or 1017₄, composition ⿱雨彐(GJ) or ⿱雨⿻コ一(HTK))

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

Wikidata

• 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

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, OC *sqʰʷed) : semantic 雨 + phonetic 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids).

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

雪

1. snow

   下雪  ―  xiàxuě  ―  to snow

2. to wipe away; to clean
3. (Cantonese) ice; product containing ice
4. (Cantonese) to store in the refrigerator

• 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–

(grade 2 “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: ぶき (buki); せ (se); きよ (kiyo); きよみ (kiyomi); まよむ (mayomu)

⟨yuki₁⟩ → */jukʲi/ → /juki/

From Old Japanese.[1] Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[2]

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⟩.[3]

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

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ゆき​ [yùkíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[4]
  • IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ᵝkʲi]

雪 (hiragana ゆき, rōmaji yuki)

1. snow
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 27-28:[5]

     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"), [attested in] the Nihon Shoki Shiki as awayuki (light snowfall), said to be weak as foamy water

   Synonym: 玉塵 (gyokujin)

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}}.

• 雪 (ゆき)に白 (しら)鷺 (さぎ) (yuki ni shirasagi)
• 雪 (ゆき)は豊 (ほう)年 (ねん)の瑞 (しるし) (yuki wa hōnen no shirushi)
• 雪 (ゆき)やこんこん (yuki ya konkon)

• 白妙 (しろたえ)の, 白栲 (しろたえ)の (shirotae no, pillow word that can allude to yuki)
• 久方 (ひさかた)の (hisakata no, another pillow word that can allude to yuki)

雪 (hiragana ゆき, rōmaji Yuki)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   雪 (ゆき)やこんこ霰 (あられ)やこんこ　降 (ふ)っては降 (ふ)ってはずんずん積 (つも)る

   yuki ya konko arare ya konko futte wa futte wa zunzun tsumoru

   (please add an English translation of this example)

2. a female given name

雪 (eumhun 눈 설 (nun seol))

1. snow
2. white

• 설농탕 (雪濃湯, seollongtang)
• 설탕 (雪糖, seoltang, “sugar”)
• 초설 (初雪, choseol, “first snow”)

Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

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

雪 (yuki₁) (kana ゆき)

1. snow
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 822), text here

     和何則能尓 宇米能波奈知流 比佐可多能 阿米欲里由吉能 那何列久流加母

     wa ga so₂no₂ ni ume₂ no₂ pana tiru pi₁sakata no₂ ame₂ yo₁ri yuki₁ no₂ nagarekuru ka mo

     In my garden, the plum blossoms fall, as if snow were streaming down from the [eternal?] heavens.

• Japanese: 雪 (yuki)

• 白妙の, 白栲の (siro₁tape₂ no₂, pillow word that can allude to yuki₁)

Found once in the Man'yōshū in a so-called 東歌 (Azuma uta, literally “eastern song”) in the eastern dialect of Old Japanese.

Probably a misspelling of original ⟨yo₁ki₁⟩, given the Western and modern reflexes. Compare 夜 (yo₁ → yu, “night”).

雪 (yo₂ki₁) (kana よき)

1. (regional, Eastern Old Japanese) snow
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3423), text here

     可美都氣努 伊可抱乃祢呂尓 布路与伎能 遊吉須宜可提奴 伊毛賀伊敝乃安多里

     Kami₁tuke₂no₁ Ikapo no₂ nero₂ ni puro₁ yo₂ki₁ no₂ yuki₁sugi₂katenu imo ga ipe₁ no₂ atari

     Like in Kamitsukeno, on the peak of Ikaho, the falling snow: impassible, near my girl's house

雪 (tuyết)

1. Hán tự form of tuyết (“snow”).

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