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Chinese symbol for “sleet”

雨夹雪
yǔ jiā xuě
Traditional: 雨夾雪
sleet; mixture of snow and rain

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sleet is 雨夹雪 (yǔ jiā xuě), defined as: sleet; mixture of snow and rain.

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Characters and stroke order

雨 yǔ
rain
radical 173 ⾬ · 8 strokes
夹 jiā
to support; to be wedged between
radical 37 ⼤ · 6 strokes
雪 xuě
snow; wipe away shame, avenge
radical 173 ⾬ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “sleet”

WordPinyinMeaning
霙yīngsleet; snowflakes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 雨夹雪.

WordPinyinMeaning
下雨xià yǔto rain
大雨dà yǔheavy rain; 场 (cháng)
暴雨bào yǔtorrential rain; rainstorm
风雨 (風雨)fēng yǔwind and rain; the elements
雨水yǔ shuǐrainwater; rainfall; rain
雨伞 (雨傘)yǔ sǎnumbrella; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
文件夹 (文件夾)wén jiàn jiāfolder; file (paper)
夹击 (夾擊)jiā jīpincer attack; attack from two or more sides
滑雪huá xuěto ski; skiing

See also: Japanese symbol for “sleet”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.