霰 – hail, hailstones, small cubes

20 strokesN1 vocabulary

The kanji 霰 means hail, hailstones, small cubes. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is セン、サン (sen, san); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あられ (arare). It is written with 20 strokes, under radical 雨 (no. 173).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	セン	sen
On’yomi	サン	san
Kun’yomi	あられ	arare

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 雨 (Kangxi radical 173). Components: ｜・一・雨・月・二・攵・乞.

Words using 霰

霰あられhail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm)

Kanji with the same radical

電震露需雨雪零雲雰霊雷霞霧霜雫

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.