SNOW  雪雪

WHITE FROZEN RAIN.
Hypernym
  • WATERINTENSELY COMMON TRANSPARENT LIQUID LACKING TASTE which FILLS RIVERS AND the SEA.
    • LIQUIDSUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW.
      • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT....
See also
  • ICEHARD FROZEN WATER.
    Hyponym
    • HAIL　SNOW which has BECOME ICE SPHERES.
      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 ／

      • 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

      雪  xuě OC: sqled MC: siɛt 33 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vibe raining or snowing heavily
      雱  pāng OC: phaaŋ MC: phɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vibe snowing heavily

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