霜

霜 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一月木月山 (MBDBU), four-corner 1096₃, composition ⿱雨相)

• KangXi: page 1376, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42363
• Dae Jaweon: page 1885, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4070, character 2
• Unihan data for U+971C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sraŋ) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 相 (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs).

From 凉 (cold) with an s- (nominalizer) prefix (Schuessler, 2007).

霜

1. frost
2. frost-like powder
3. (medicine) cream

   防曬霜／防晒霜  ―  fángshàishuāng  ―  sunscreen

4. (literary, figurative) white
5. (Min Nan) ice

• (ice):

• “霜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. frost
2. years
3. white as snow, cold as ice, harsh as snow

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: しも (shimo, 霜, Jōyō)

/simo/ → /ɕimo/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), from Proto-Japonic *simo.

Thought to be cognate with or derived from 下 (⟨simo₁⟩ → shimo, “bottom, lower part”).

• (Tokyo) しも​ [shìmóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕimo̞]

霜(しも) • (shimo) 

1. frost (ice crystals in objects exposed to the air)

   Synonym: フロスト (furosuto)

2. (by extension) ice adhered inside an electric refrigerator
3. (figurative) white hair

• 霜(しも)を置(お)く (shimo o oku)

• 霜(しも)を履(ふ)んで堅氷(けんぴょう)至(いた)る (shimo o funde kenpyō itaru)

霜(しも) • (Shimo) 

1. a surname

From Middle Chinese 霜 (MC ʃɨɐŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 사ᇰ (sang) (Yale: sang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 霜 (eumhun 서리 상 (seori sang))

1. Hanja form^? of 상 (“frost”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

霜: Hán Nôm readings: sương

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