霙

霙 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一月廿中大 (MBTLK), four-corner 1053₀, composition ⿱雨英)

1. sleet

• KangXi: page 1376, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42350
• Dae Jaweon: page 1885, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4066, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9719

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am (“to freeze; snow”) (provisionally reconstructed) (STEDT).

Insides Sinitic, 霙 (OC *ʔraŋ) is cognate with 雱 (OC *pʰˁaŋ) "heavy snowfall", 冰 (OC *p.rəŋ) & 凌 (OC *[r]əŋ ~ p.rəŋ) (both meaning "ice"), & possibly also 凝 (OC [ŋ](r)əŋ) "to congeal" (STEDT; Baxter and Sagart, 2014);

Outsides Sinitic, cognate with Proto-Tani *pam (“snow”), Japhug jpɣom (“to freeze”), tɤjpɣom (“ice”) (STEDT; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

霙

1. snowflake

   • 凡草木花多五出，雪花獨六出，雪花曰霙。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     凡草木花多五出，雪花独六出，雪花曰霙。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE

     Fán cǎomù huā duō wǔ chū, xuěhuā dú liù chū, xuěhuā yuē yīng [Pinyin]

     Ordinarily, most plants' flowers have five petals; only snow flowers have six petals. Snow flowers are called snowflakes.

   • 晚雨纖纖變玉霙 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     晚雨纤纤变玉霙 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 蘇軾 Su Shi,《雪夜独宿柏仙庵》"Staying Alone in the Cypress Immortal Hermitage during a Snowy Night"

     Wǎnyǔ xiānxiān biàn yùyīng [Pinyin]

     The evening raindrops, fine and graceful, become jade-like snowflakes

2. sleet

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• On (unclassified): えい (ei); よう (yō)
• Kun: みぞれ (mizore, 霙)

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• (Tokyo) みぞれ [mìzóré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [mʲizo̞ɾe̞]

霙(みぞれ) • (mizore) 

1. sleet

霙 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale eyng)

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