霜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 相 – frozen dew, frost.

Han character

霜 (radical 173 雨+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一月木月山 (MBDBU), four-corner 1096₃, composition ⿱雨相)

1. frost
2. crystallized
3. candied

References

• KangXi: page 1376, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42363
• Dae Jaweon: page 1885, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4070, character 2
• Unihan data for U+971C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

霜 (jyutping soeng1, Yale seung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

霜 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: しも (shimo)

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Korean

Hanja

霜 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

霜 (pinyin shuāng (shuang1), Wade-Giles shuang¹)

Compounds

• 貴霜

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Middle Chinese

Han character

霜 (shriɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霜 (sương)