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烟雨 (yān yǔ): meaning and stroke order

烟雨 (yān yǔ) means misty rain, drizzle.

烟雨

Simplified
烟雨
Traditional
煙雨
Pinyin
yān yǔ

Stroke order of 烟雨

烟

  • yān cigarette or pipe tobacco; CL:根[gen1]
  • yān tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 煙

Stroke by stroke

雨

  • yǔ rain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
  • yù (literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 烟雨

  1. yān yǔ Traditional 煙雨
    • misty rain
    • drizzle

Radicals of the characters

烟
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 10 strokes · 火 on the left, 因 on the right
雨
Radical 雨 (Kangxi radical 173) · 8 strokes · 一 on top, 𠕒 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

烟雨 in our stories

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  • 接着他写道：竹杖芒鞋轻胜马，谁怕？一蓑烟雨任平生。

    jiēzhe tā xiě dào zhúzhàng mángxié qīng shèng mǎ shéi pà yì suō yānyǔ rèn píngshēng

    He goes on: "Bamboo staff and straw sandals, lighter than a horse—who's afraid? In a straw cape through misty rain, I'll let my whole life take its course."

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 烟雨

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).