SNOW    雪雪

WHITE FROZEN RAIN.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The dominant word is xuě 雪. 2. Xiàn 霰 are snowflakes, and the structure of these drew early Chinese attention. 3. Bīng 冰 is ice. See ICE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
雪 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • HAILnew-bc0f2f40-cbb7-4abc-8f2f-40cbb73abc58　SNOW which has BECOME ICE SPHERES. (anc: 8/0, child: 0)
See also
  • ICEHARD FROZEN WATER.
Hypernym
  • WATER　INTENSELY COMMON TRANSPARENT LIQUID LACKING TASTE which FILLS RIVERS AND the SEA. (anc: 6/0, child: 10)
  • LIQUID　SUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW. (anc: 5/0, child: 9)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.76

  • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 68

    • Words (4 items)

    雪  xuě OC: sqled MC: siɛt 34 Attributions

    The dominant word is xuě 雪.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 霜/ICE Shuāng 霜 refers to frost.

      Syntactic words
    • nabprocessThe process of snowing, it snowing, snow as an event/process
    • nmsnow
    • vi0processit is snowing （this is not current in pre-Buddhist Chinese) Du Fu, 大雨：西蜀冬不雪
    霰  xiàn OC: sqeens MC: sen 4 Attributions

    Xiàn 霰 are snowflakes, and the structure of these drew early Chinese attention.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 雹/HAIL The current word for hail is báo 雹, and i have not found any competing near-synonyms.

      Syntactic words
    • nmsnowflake
    霏  fēi OC: phɯl MC: phɨi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vibe raining or snowing heavily
    雱  pāng OC: phaaŋ MC: phɑŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vibe snowing heavily