雪 means “snow”

ゆき · yuki

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ゆき

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セツ

JLPT N4 · Taught in grade 2 · 11 strokes

The story

Winter snow blankets temples in silence, each flake a poem waiting to be read.

A popular name in Japan and a symbol of winter beauty

Its parts

• 雨 Rain · Top
• ヨ Hand/broom · Bottom

Rain (雨) you can sweep away (ヨ): snow

Words with 雪

• 雪山 (ゆきやま, yukiyama): snowy mountain
• 白雪 (しらゆき, shirayuki): white snow

Example sentences

• 雪が降っています。 It is snowing.
• 子供たちは雪で遊んでいます。 The children are playing in the snow.
• 北海道は雪が多いです。 Hokkaido gets a lot of snow.

Kanji that look like 雪

• 雨 (rain): 雨 is simpler: just the rain radical without the bottom part
• 雲 (cloud): 雲 has 云 under 雨, 雪 has ヨ; look at what's below the rain

More from Nature's Poetry

• 石 stone
• 波 wave
• 葉 leaf
• 鳥 bird
• 土 earth
• 雷 thunder
• 海 sea
• 雲 cloud
• 野 field
• 光 light
• 谷 valley
• 竹 bamboo

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.