VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

ゆき
hepburn yuki

snow

Part of speech · noun

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snow
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Examples

  1. 雪が降っています。
    It is snowing.
  2. 北海道は雪が多いです。
    Hokkaido has a lot of snow.

Collocations

雪が降る (snow falls)雪が積もる (snow piles up)初雪 (hatsuyuki, first snow of season)大雪 (ooyuki, heavy snow)雪国 (yukiguni, snow country)

Mnemonic

雪 yuki — combines with 降る furu (fall) like 雨 ame-rain (batch 3): 雪が降る. Literary vocab — Kawabata's 雪国 yukiguni ("Snow Country"), 初雪 hatsuyuki (first snow of season). Onyomi せつ (setsu): 雪原 setsugen (snowfield), 新雪 shinsetsu.

Quick check

  1. "Snow piles up" — natural Japanese?

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