rain

Origin & mnemonic

The rain radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script, depicting water droplets falling from the sky. The form shows a cloud-like shape at the top with strokes below representing falling raindrops.

Mnemonic: Picture a cloud floating on top with water droplets falling down as scratching strokes beneath it.

• 雨yǔ🔊

  rain

  HSK 1

  8 strokes

• 雪xuě🔊

  snow

  HSK 2

  11 strokes

• 雩yú🔊

  summer sacrifice for rain

  11 strokes

• 云yún🔊

  (classical) to say

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 雯wén🔊

  multicolored clouds

  12 strokes

• 雰fēn🔊

  misty

  12 strokes

• 雱pāng🔊

  (literary) (of rainfall or snowfall) heavy

  12 strokes

• 雳lì🔊

  used in 霹靂|霹雳[pi1 li4]

  12 strokes

• 雷léi🔊

  thunder

  13 strokes

• 零líng🔊

  zero

  HSK 1

  13 strokes

• 电diàn🔊

  lightning

  HSK 1

  13 strokes

• 雾wù🔊

  fog

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 雹báo🔊

  hail

  13 strokes

• 需xū🔊

  to require

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 霁jì🔊

  sky clearing up

  14 strokes

• 霆tíng🔊

  clap of thunder

  14 strokes

• 霉méi🔊

  mold

  15 strokes

• 震zhèn🔊

  to shake

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 霂mù🔊

  used in 霢霂[mai4 mu4]

  15 strokes

• 霄xiāo🔊

  firmament

  15 strokes

• 霅zhá🔊

  rain

  15 strokes

• 霈pèi🔊

  torrent of rain

  15 strokes

• 霍huò🔊

  (literary) suddenly

  16 strokes

• 霓ní🔊

  secondary rainbow

  16 strokes

• 霎shà🔊

  all of a sudden

  16 strokes

• 霏fēi🔊

  fall of snow

  16 strokes

• 霒yīn🔊

  old variant of 陰|阴[yin1]

  16 strokes

• 霖lín🔊

  continued rain

  16 strokes

• 霙yīng🔊

  sleet

  16 strokes

• 霜shuāng🔊

  frost

  HSK 7

  17 strokes

• 霛líng🔊

  old variant of 靈|灵[ling2]

  17 strokes

• 霝líng🔊

  drops of rain

  17 strokes

• 霞xiá🔊

  rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset

  17 strokes

• 霡mài🔊

  old variant of 霢[mai4]

  17 strokes

• 霤liù🔊

  dripping of rain from eaves

  18 strokes

• 霩kuò🔊

  variant of 廓[kuo4]

  18 strokes

• 霨wèi🔊

  rising of clouds

  19 strokes

• 霪yín🔊

  heavy rain

  19 strokes

• 霫xí🔊

  Sui-Tang (premodern ethnic group)

  19 strokes

• 霭ǎi🔊

  mist

  19 strokes

• 霮dàn🔊

  denseness of clouds

  20 strokes

• 霰xiàn🔊

  graupel

  20 strokes

• 露lù🔊

  dew

  HSK 6

  21 strokes

• 霸bà🔊

  hegemon

  21 strokes

• 霹pī🔊

  used in 霹靂|霹雳[pi1 li4] and 霹雷[pi1 lei2]

  21 strokes

• 霺wēi🔊

  old variant of 溦[wei1]

  21 strokes

• 霾mái🔊

  haze

  22 strokes

• 靁léi🔊

  old variant of 雷[lei2]

  23 strokes