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雨 — rain

Pinyin
yǔ · yù
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — yǔ, yù — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 雨: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

雨 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 雨 in the HSK syllabus: 10

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 下雨xià yǔto rainHSK 1
  2. 雨yǔrainHSK 1
  3. 雨衣yǔyīraincoatHSK 3
  4. 暴雨bàoyǔtorrential rain; rainstormHSK 5
  5. 雨水yǔshuǐYushui or Rain Water, 2nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 19th February-5th MarchHSK 5
  6. 风雨fēngyǔwind and rain; the elements; trials and hardshipsHSK 6
  7. 阵雨zhènyǔshowerHSK 6
  8. 暴风骤雨bàofēng-zhòuyǔviolent wind and rainstorm; hurricane; tempestHSK 7–9
  9. 风吹雨打fēngchuī-yǔdǎlit. windswept and battered by rainHSK 7–9
  10. 风雨无阻fēngyǔ-wúzǔregardless of weather conditionsHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.