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雪上加霜

xuě shàng jiā shuāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

雪上加霜 (xuě shàng jiā shuāng) means "(idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 雪上加霜 means

1. idiomto make matters even worse
2. to add insult to injury

The characters in 雪上加霜

• 雪xuěsnow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
• 霜shuāngfrost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting

Where 雪上加霜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xuě shàng jiā shuāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.