How to write 雨 (yǔ, “rain”)

雨, an HSK 1 character, is read yǔ for “rain”, and also yù (“to fall”). On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 下雨 (“to rain”), 雨衣 (“raincoat”) and 雨水 (“rainwater”). Japanese reads it u, “rain”, as a JLPT N5 kanji.

Pinyin: yǔ, yù
Strokes: 8
HSK: 1
Radical: 雨 (“rain”)

Stroke by stroke

Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
Vertical ㇑leftdownwards
Horizontal-turn-hook ㇆leftrightwards → downwards
Vertical ㇑topdownwards
Dot ㇔leftdown and right
Dot ㇔leftdown and right
Dot ㇔centerrightwards
Dot ㇔centerdown and right

Names of the strokes

Japanese and Chinese

Japanese and Chinese draw all 8 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.

Japanese · KanjiVG · 8 strokes

Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 8 strokes

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Pinyin and meaning

Pinyin	Meanings	Traditional	In words
yǔ third tone	rain	—	下雨雨衣雨水暴雨
yù fourth tone	(of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wet; (literary) to rain	—	—

HSK 2025 syllabus: level 1
2021 standard: level 1
HSK 2.0: in a level 1 word
Words with it: 135 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 雨

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
雨	yǔ	rain HSK 1
下雨	xiàyǔ	to rain HSK 1
雨衣	yǔyī	raincoat HSK 3
雨水	yǔshuǐ	rainwater; rainfall HSK 5
暴雨	bàoyǔ	torrential rain; rainstorm HSK 5
风雨風雨	fēngyǔ	wind and rain; the elements HSK 6
阵雨陣雨	zhènyǔ	shower (rain) HSK 6
风吹雨打風吹雨打	fēngchuī-yǔdǎ	lit. windswept and battered by rain; to undergo hardship (idiom) HSK 7-9
风雨无阻風雨無阻	fēngyǔ-wúzǔ	regardless of weather conditions; rain, hail or shine HSK 7-9
暴风骤雨暴風驟雨	bàofēng-zhòuyǔ	violent wind and rainstorm; hurricane HSK 7-9

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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