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How do you say "snow" in Chinese?
雪
xuě
In Chinese, "snow" is 雪.
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Pronunciation
Pronounced 'shwey' with rising tone, pitch ascends gently like snowflakes falling.
Writing and usage
A single character with 11 strokes; contains rain radical with a modifier, snow is technically frozen rain in this system.
Example sentence
冬天下雪。
It snows in winter.
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How to remember 雪
Snow is frozen rain, colder than rain but shares the same radical.
Related words
- beautiful 美 měi
- blue 蓝 lán
- cheap 便宜 piányi
- cold 冷 lěng
- forty-three 四十三 sì shí sān
- gray 灰 huī
- hail 冰雹 bīng báo
- sixty-two 六十二 liù shí èr
- thirty-seven 三十七 sān shí qī
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Questions about 雪
How do you say "snow" in Chinese?
In Chinese, "snow" is 雪. It is a noun.
How is 雪 written in Chinese?
A single character with 11 strokes; contains rain radical with a modifier, snow is technically frozen rain in this system.
How is 雪 used in a sentence?
Use 雪 as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: 冬天下雪。 (It snows in winter.).
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