霜 – frost

17 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2151 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 霜 means frost. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソウ (sou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is しも (shimo). It is written with 17 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	ソウ	sou
Kun’yomi	しも	shimo

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: 雨・木・目.

Words using 霜

霜しもfrost

Example sentences

今朝、地面は霜で覆われていた。

The ground was covered with frost this morning.

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Kanji with the same radical

電震露需雨雪零雲雰霊雷霞霧雫霰

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