雨
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Rain: water falling in drops from the clouds. As a noun it takes adjectives: 大雨 'heavy rain', 小雨 'light rain', 雨很大 'it is pouring'. To say that it rains, use the verb phrase 下雨.
Mưa: nước từ trên mây rơi xuống thành giọt. Là danh từ nên đi với tính từ: 大雨 (mưa to), 小雨 (mưa nhỏ), 雨很大 (mưa rất to). Muốn nói “trời mưa” thì dùng cụm động từ 下雨.
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 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 “雨” mean?
Rain: water falling in drops from the clouds. As a noun it takes adjectives: 大雨 'heavy rain', 小雨 'light rain', 雨很大 'it is pouring'. To say that it rains, use the verb phrase 下雨.
Is “雨” formal or informal?
雨 is generally neutral.