雪
xuě
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Snow: soft white flakes of ice that fall from the sky in cold weather. To say it is snowing, use the verb phrase 下雪, just as rain is 下雨: 下雪了 'it's snowing'. Heavy snow is 大雪.
Tuyết: những tinh thể băng trắng, xốp rơi xuống khi trời rất lạnh. “Tuyết rơi” là 下雪, cũng như mưa là 下雨: 下雪了 (tuyết rơi rồi). Tuyết rơi dày là 大雪.
NounRegister: 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 雪 = tuyết · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tuyết” (tuyet). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “雪” mean?
Snow: soft white flakes of ice that fall from the sky in cold weather. To say it is snowing, use the verb phrase 下雪, just as rain is 下雨: 下雪了 'it's snowing'. Heavy snow is 大雪.
Is “雪” formal or informal?
雪 is generally neutral.