霜 — Chinese character
霜
shuāng
frost; frozen, crystallized, candied
- Pinyin
- shuāng
- Radical
- 173 ⾬ (Rain)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 雨 相
- Formation
- pictophonetic — rain; meaning component 雨; sound component 相
- Japanese
- 霜 as a kanji
Common words with 霜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雪上加霜 | xuě shàng jiā shuāng | (idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury |
| 防晒霜 (防曬霜) | fáng shài shuāng | suntan lotion; sunscreen cream |
| 面霜 | miàn shuāng | facial cream (cosmetics) |
| 砒霜 | pī shuāng | white arsenic; arsenic trioxide As2O3 |
| 眼霜 | yǎn shuāng | eye cream |
| 无霜期 (無霜期) | wú shuāng qī | frost-free period |
| 霜花 | shuāng huā | frost forming a pattern on a surface; rime |
| 风霜 (風霜) | fēng shuāng | wind and frost; fig. hardships |
| 霜冻 (霜凍) | shuāng dòng | frost; frost damage (to crop) |
| 冰霜 | bīng shuāng | (literary) ice formed in freezing weather as frost or icicles etc (often used as a metaphor for moral uprightness, strictness, sternness or aloofness) |
| 糖霜 | táng shuāng | frosting; icing |
| 霜雪 | shuāng xuě | frost and snow; (fig.) snowy white (hair) |
English words written with 霜
霜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Zhuangzi 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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