霜
shuāng HSK7

frost

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Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.

Components

雨
雨 Meaning component
yǔ rain
相
相 Sound component
xiāng, xiàng mutual

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsrjang[s]raŋ hoar-frost

說文解字

《說文》：“霜，喪也，成物者。从雨，相聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)