雪
ゆき
hepburn yuki
snow
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 雪が降っています。It is snowing.
- 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
"Snow piles up" — natural Japanese?