Readings

Kana: ソウ、しも
Romaji: sou, shimo
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

frost

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  17
Radical Number:  173
Frequency:  2151
Grade:  8
Skip Pattern:  2-8-9
Korean Reading:  sang
Chinese Reading:  shuang1
Unicode:  971c
JIS:  417A

Indexes

Halpern Index: 2815
Nelson Index: 5064

Words

(しも)
frost
霜降り (しもふり)
speckled with white; salt and pepper (colour, color); (of fabric) created by intertwining white and coloured fibres; (of beef) marbling; (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water
霜枯れ (しもがれ)
nipped by frost; bleak
霜枯れ時 (しもがれどき)
winter (season); slack or off season
霜雪 (そうせつ)
frost and snow
霜月 (しもつき、そうげつ)
eleventh month of the lunar calendar
遅霜 (おそじも)
late spring frost
霜枯れる (しもがれる)
to be withered or nipped by frost
露霜 (つゆじも)
frozen dew
霜夜 (しもよ)
frosty night
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