The kanji 霜: meaning, readings and stroke order
霜
- Meaning
- frost
- On reading
- ソウ sou
- Kun reading
- しも shimo
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 雨 rain
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- sương giá (sương)
- Japanese
- しも。ふゆの あさ つちに できる こおり。
- Korean
- 서리 (상)
- Chinese
- 霜
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading · less common
晩霜
late frost (in spring)
晩霜で 作物が いたみます。
A late frost harms the crops.
しも shimo · kun reading
霜
frost
朝に 畑が 霜で 白く なります。
In the morning, the field turns white with frost.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.