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雪 — snow; to wipe away

Pinyin
xuě · Xuě
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 雪: 11 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.

雪 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 雪 in the HSK syllabus: 7

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. 雪xuěsnow; to wipe awayHSK 1
  2. 雪糕xuěgāoice cream bar; ice cream popsicleHSK 5
  3. 滑雪huáxuěto ski; skiingHSK 6
  4. 冰天雪地bīngtiān-xuědìa world of ice and snowHSK 7–9
  5. 瑞雪ruìxuětimely snowHSK 7–9
  6. 雪山xuěshānsnow-capped mountainHSK 7–9
  7. 雪上加霜xuěshàng-jiāshuāngto make matters even worse; to add insult to injuryHSK 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.