HAIL    冰雹

SNOW which has BECOME ICE SPHERES.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for hail is báo 雹, and i have not found any competing near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
雹 冰雹 雹子 冷子 冰子 硬雨 白雨 霰 雪子 雪糝 冰凌 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • ICE　HARD FROZEN WATER. (anc: 7/0, child: 1)
  • 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)
Other Hypernyms
  • SNOW　WHITE FROZEN RAIN. (anc: 7/0, child: 1)
  • 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)

Words (1 items)

雹  báo OC: bruuɡ MC: bɣɔk 3 Attributions

The current word for hail is báo 雹, and i have not found any competing near-synonyms.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 霰/SNOW Xiàn 霰 are snowflakes, and the structure of these drew early Chinese attention.

    Syntactic words
  • nmhail