下雨
xià yǔ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To rain: the usual way to say that rain is falling. Chinese builds it as a verb and its object, 下 'come down' + 雨 'rain', so words can go between them: 下大雨 'to rain hard'. No subject is needed: 下雨了 'it's raining now'. Snowing is 下雪.
Mưa, trời mưa: cách nói thông thường khi có mưa rơi. Cấu trúc là động từ 下 (rơi xuống) cộng tân ngữ 雨 (mưa), nên có thể chen từ vào giữa: 下大雨 (mưa to). Không cần chủ ngữ, giống “mưa rồi” trong tiếng Việt: 下雨了. Tuyết rơi là 下雪.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 雨 = vũ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “下雨” mean?
To rain: the usual way to say that rain is falling. Chinese builds it as a verb and its object, 下 'come down' + 雨 'rain', so words can go between them: 下大雨 'to rain hard'. No subject is needed: 下雨了 'it's raining now'. Snowing is 下雪. Literally: fall rain
Is “下雨” formal or informal?
下雨 is generally neutral.