The Chinese Radical: 雨


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Meaning
rain    雨

Explanation View out of a window into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
rain


View out of a window into the rain; the upper line is a rain cloud.
JLPT HSK 2
snow, snowfall
xuě
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: hand /ヨ
Rain that you can hold in your hand is: snow.
JLPT HSK 2
zero, nought, remnant, remainder
líng
Top: rain , below: order/command (A lid on the bent person, was ordered)
The chances that the rain might obey an order are: zero.
JLPT HSK 3
to require, to need, to want, necessity, need

Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: beard (closed mouth with a beard )
(For care:) Rain[water] on the beard is: required.
JLPT HSK 5
thunder, terrific
léi
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: field [cf. Electricity : When lightning strikes the field , then the lightning rod has electricity]
Rain falls on the field amidst thunder. [Or: The rain on the field without lightning has only a thunder.]
JLPT HSK 5
fog, mist

Top: rain , bottom: affair, business 务 (He sits cross-legged , but he handles with force his: affairs)
Rain is an affair connected with: fog or mist.
JLPT HSK 5
to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, funnel
lòu
Left: water , right: buttocks from the side and rain
The water on the buttocks is rain but it 'leaks' down.
JLPT HSK 5
to sprinkle, to spray, to spill, to shed

西
Left: water , right: west 西 (Below the horizon the sun sinks at the sunset in the west, but here: variant of rain )
Water as 'rain' means to sprinkle.
JLPT HSK 5
to shake (earth quake), to vibrate, to tremble, excited, shocked
zhèn
Top: rain , below: 'early morning' = image of plowing (At the field corner a first line is plowed by the farmer .)
When rain causes "plowed lines" (in a puddle), it is like a "quake".
JLPT HSK 5
mold, mildew, fungi, moldy
méi
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: every (every person = has a mother )
At rain everything is affected by: mold.
JLPT HSK 6
suddenly
huò
Left: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), right: bird
Rain and birds come suddenly.
JLPT HSK 6
to come to appearance, reveal, show, nectar
lù, lòu
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: street (The feet all move on the road.)
(The potholes are filling up?) Rain comes on the street into: appearance.
JLPT HSK 6
tyrant, hegemon, to rule by force, to usurp

Top: rain , below: leather (Horned 廿 animals have a skin of leather; but here: animals in general.), moon
He controls the rain, the animals and the moon: The tyrant!
JLPT HSK 6
Confucius, scholar

Left: person , right: require, need (Rain[water] on the beard is needed [for care])
People need confucianism. Or: The person in the rain with the (long) beard, is: Confucius.
JLPT HSK 6
red clouds, afterglow, red sunset
xiá
Top: rain (here: generally weather), bottom: (free interpretation: mine/pit) (In a hole with a ladder 'E' you have the tool コ in your hand )
This weather (phenomenon) has (dulled light) like in a mine: Red clouds at sunset.
JLPT HSK 6
frost, white powder or cream
shuāng
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: mutually (At the tree you watch mutually.)
(Sometimes hoar frost makes the trees white:) This 'rain' in the trees can be seen, because it is: frost.
JLPT HSK 6
bud
lěi
Top: plant , bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain falls on the fields amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.
JLPT HSK 6
hail, hailstorm
báo
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: enwrap (The wrap itself makes it to be wrapped.)
The rain, which is "enwrapped" is the hail.
JLPT no HSK
multicolored clouds, cloud pattern
wén
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: text/language (also means cloud)
When rain is decribed with text (= poetically), then as multicolored cloud pattern.
JLPT no HSK
firmament, heaven
xiāo
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: alike/resemble (Small bodies are alike.)
The rain is alike (everywhere) in the firmament.
JLPT no HSK
continued rain
lín
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: forest
When the rain is like a forest, it is: continued rain.
JLPT no HSK
clap of thunder
tíng
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: judicial court (The movement of a scholar with hat [= judge] to the court.)
The rain, as well as the judicial court makes: "claps of thunder".
JLPT no HSK
all of a sudden, drizzle
shà
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), right: concubine 妾 (The standing woman is the: concubine.)
In the rain is standing a woman (and says:) It came suddenly.
JLPT no HSK
clap of thunder

Top: rain , bottom: anal penetration, torture (buttock from the side , anus , needle as symbol for penetration or torture)
In the rain you are 'tortured' by the thunderclap.
JLPT no HSK
clap of thunder

Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), bottom: to pass through, history 历 (The cliff was piled up with force : This is the past and has entered into history)
In the rain, like a cliff of power: the clap of thunder.
JLPT no HSK
secondary rainbow

Top: rain , bottom: fragment, child / (typically simplified to , as a mortar and legs )
At rain the rainbow 虹 has a child: the secondary.
JLPT no HSK
beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)
léi, lèi, lēi
Left: hand , right: thunder 雷 (Rain falls on the fields amidst thunder.)
A hand like a thunder, when: beating.

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