Chinese symbol for “snow”
雪
xuě
snow; 场 (cháng); (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for snow is 雪 (xuě), defined as: snow; 场 (cháng); (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “snow”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 积雪 (積雪) | jī xuě | snow; snow cover |
| 白雪 | bái xuě | snow |
| 下雪 | xià xuě | to snow |
| 降雪 | jiàng xuě | to snow; snowfall |
| 飘雪 (飄雪) | piāo xuě | to snow |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 雪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滑雪 | huá xuě | to ski; skiing |
| 冰雪 | bīng xuě | ice and snow |
| 雪山 | xuě shān | snow-capped mountain |
| 雪球 | xuě qiú | snowball |
| 雪白 | xuě bái | snow white |
| 雪花 | xuě huā | snowflake |
See also: Japanese symbol for “snow”.
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.