雨, a pictographic character of rain, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 雨 express meanings related to rain, climate or weather such as 雪, 雾, 霹, 雳, 雷, 雹, 霉霄, 霏, 震, 霞, 露, 霾, etc. Continue reading “Component 雨 rain”
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Natural phenomena related to rain 雨
You know frost 霜 shuāng fog, 雾 wù dew, 露 lù thunder, 雷 léi hail, 雹 báo etc, are all natural phenomena related to water vapor in the air. These natural phenomena are best demonstrated by Chinese characters composed of the radical 雨.
Tips:
Upon seeing characters with 雨 on the top, just think of the natural phenomena related to water vapor. These characters are semantic top-phonetic bottom such as 雨 yǔ + 非 fēi ＝ 霏fēi, 雨 yǔ + 厉 lì ＝ 雳 lì.
