霜

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		霜
simp. #		霜
alternative forms		⿱⿻丅⿱冖⿰丶丶双 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (相) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
相	*slaŋ, *slaŋs
廂	*slaŋ
湘	*slaŋ
緗	*slaŋ
箱	*slaŋ
葙	*slaŋ
想	*slaŋʔ
霜	*sraŋ
孀	*sraŋ
鸘	*sraŋ
驦	*sraŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sraŋ) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 相 (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 霜

1. frost
2. (medicine) cream

   防曬霜／防晒霜  ―  fángshàishuāng  ―  sunscreen

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

霜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. frost
2. years
3. white as snow, cold as ice, harsh as snow

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: しも (shimo, 霜, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 霜害(そうがい) (sōgai)
• 霜月(そうげつ) (sōgetsu)
• 霜鬢(そうびん) (sōbin)
• 降霜(こうそう) (kōsō)
• 秋霜(しゅうそう) (shūsō)
• 春霜(しゅんそう) (shunsō)
• 除霜(じょそう) (josō)
• 星霜(せいそう) (seisō)
• 霜林(そうりん) (sōrin)
• 氷霜(ひょうそう) (hyōsō)
• 風霜(ふうそう) (fūsō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
霜
しも Grade: S
kun'yomi

/simo/ → /ɕimo/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), from Proto-Japonic *simə.

Thought to be cognate with or derived from 下 (⟨simo₂⟩ → shimo, “bottom, lower part”).

Noun

霜(しも) • (shimo) 

1. frost (ice crystals in objects exposed to the air)

   Synonym: フロスト (furosuto)

2. (by extension) ice adhered inside an electric refrigerator
3. (figurative) white hair

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 霜(しも)曇(ぐもり), 霜曇(しもぐも)り (shimogumori)
• 霜月(しもつき) (shimotsuki)
• 霜(しも)柱(ばしら) (shimobashira)
• 秋霜(あきしも) (akishimo)
• 大霜(おおしも) (ōshimo)
• 晩霜(おそじも) (osojimo)
• 露霜(つゆじも) (tsuyujimo)
• 初霜(はつしも) (hatsushimo)
• 夕霜(ゆうしも) (yūshimo)

Idioms

• 霜(しも)を置(お)く (shimo o oku)

Proverbs

• 霜(しも)を履(ふ)んで堅氷(けんぴょう)至(いた)る (shimo o funde kenpyō itaru)

Proper noun

霜(しも) • (Shimo) 

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Korean

Hanja

霜 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 霜 (sương)

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