雱

雱 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一月卜竹尸 (MBYHS), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱雨方)

1. snowing heavily

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1372, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42233
• Dae Jaweon: page 1879, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4059, character 13
• Unihan data for U+96F1

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

Insides Sinitic, 雱 (OC *pʰˁaŋ) is cognate with 霙 (OC *ʔraŋ) "sleet, snowflake", 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).

雱

1. (literary, of snowfall or rainfall) heavy; blanketing

   • 北風其涼、雨雪其雱。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     北风其凉、雨雪其雱。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Běifēng qí liáng, yǔxuě qí pāng. [Pinyin]

     Cold does the north wind blow; heavy fall the rain and snow.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)