雨 |
rain
View out of a window into the rain; the upper line is a rain cloud. |
雪 |
snow, snowfall
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: hand Rain that you can hold in your hand is: snow. |
零 |
zero, nought, remnant, remainder
Top: rain 雨, below: order/command 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered) The chances that the rain might obey an order are: zero. |
需 |
to require, to need, to want, necessity, need
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: beard 而 (closed mouth 一 with a beard 皿) (For care:) Rain[water] on the beard is: required. |
雷 |
thunder, terrific
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: field 田 Rain falls on the field amidst thunder. |
雾 |
fog, mist
Top: rain 雨, bottom: affair, business 务 (He sits cross-legged 夂, but he handles with force 力 his: affairs) Rain is an affair connected with: fog or mist. |
漏 |
to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, funnel
Left: water 氵, right: buttocks from the side 尸 and rain 雨 The water on the buttocks is rain but it 'leaks' down. |
洒 |
to sprinkle, to spray, to spill, to shed
Left: water 氵, right: west 西 (Below the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west, but here: variant of rain 雨) Water as 'rain' means to sprinkle. |
震 |
to shake (earth quake), to vibrate, to tremble, excited, shocked
Top: rain 雨, below: 'early morning' 辰 = image of plowing (At the field corner 厂 a first line 一 is plowed by the farmer 农.) When rain causes "plowed lines" (in a puddle), it is like a "quake". |
霉 |
mold, mildew, fungi, moldy
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: every 每 (every person 人 =  has a mother 母) At rain everything is affected by: mold. |
霍 |
suddenly
Left: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), right: bird 隹 Rain and birds come suddenly. |
露 |
to come to appearance, reveal, show, nectar
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: street 路 (The feet 足 all 各 move on the road.) (The potholes are filling up?) Rain comes on the street into: appearance. |
霸 |
tyrant, hegemon, to rule by force, to usurp
Top: rain 雨, below: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals have a skin 口 of leather; but here: animals in general.), moon 月 He controls the rain, the animals and the moon: The tyrant! |
儒 |
Confucius, scholar
Left: person 人, right: require, need 需 (Rain[water] 雨 on the beard 而 is needed [for care]) People need confucianism. Or: The person in the rain with the (long) beard, is: Confucius. |
霞 |
red clouds, afterglow, red sunset
Top: rain 雨 (here: generally weather), bottom: (free interpretation: mine/pit) 叚 (In a hole 口 with a ladder 'E' you have the tool コ in your hand 又) This weather (phenomenon) has (dulled light) like in a mine: Red clouds at sunset. |
霜 |
frost, white powder or cream
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: mutually 相 (At the tree 木 you watch 目 mutually.) (Sometimes hoar frost makes the trees white:) This 'rain' in the trees can be seen, because it is: frost. |
蕾 |
bud
Top: plant 艹, bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.) At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds. |
雹 |
hail, hailstorm
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: enwrap 包 (self 己 wrapped 勹) The rain, which is "enwrapped" is the hail. |
雯 |
multicolored clouds, cloud pattern
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: text/language 文 (also 云 means cloud) When rain is decribed with text (= poetically), then as multicolored cloud pattern. |
霄 |
firmament, heaven
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: alike/resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) The rain is alike (everywhere) in the firmament. |
霖 |
continued rain
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: forest 林 When the rain is like a forest, it is: continued rain. |
霆 |
clap of thunder
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: judicial court 廷 (movement 廴, scholar 士 with hat 壬 [=judge]) The rain, as well as the judicial court makes: "claps of thunder". |
霎 |
all of a sudden, drizzle
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), right: concubine 妾 (The standing 立 woman 女 is the: concubine.) In the rain is standing a woman (and says:) It came suddenly. |
霹 |
clap of thunder
Top: rain 雨, bottom: anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture) In the rain you are 'tortured' by the thunderclap. |
雳 |
clap of thunder
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: to pass through, history 历 (The cliff 厂 was piled up with force 力: This is the past and has entered into history) In the rain, like a cliff with power: the clap of thunder. |
霓 |
secondary rainbow
Top: rain 雨, bottom: fragment, child 兒/儿 (typically simplified to 儿, as a mortar 臼 and legs 儿) At rain the rainbow 虹 has a child: the secondary. |
擂 |
beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)
Left: hand 扌, right: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.) A hand like a thunder, when: beating. |