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霜

shuāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

霜 (shuāng) means "frost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 霜 means

1. frost
2. white powder or cream spread over a surface
3. frosting
4. (skin) cream

Example sentences

• 霜还没有开始溶化。
  Shuāng hái méiyǒu kāishǐ rónghuà.
  The hoarfrost hasn't yet begun to thaw.
• 今天早上下厚霜了。
  Jīntiān zǎoshang xià hòu shuāng le.
  We had a heavy frost this morning.
• 甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜。
  Jiǎ zhī mì táng, yǐ zhī pīshuāng.
  One man's meat is another man's poison.
• 你能在我的背上涂些防晒霜吗？
  Nǐ néng zài wǒ de bèi shàng tú xiē fángshàishuāng ma?
  Can you put some suntan lotion on my back?
• 你不想涂防晒霜是你的问题，但是晒伤了不要来抱怨。
  If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
• 桌上摆放着一瓶被霜冻漂白的蕨类植物和红宝石色的枫叶。
  A vase of frost-bleached ferns and ruby-red maple leaves adorned the table.

Words starting with 霜

• 霜降Shuāng jiàngShuangjiang or Frost Descends, 18th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 23rd October-6th November
• 霜冻shuāng dòngfrost; frost damage (to crop)
• 霜天shuāng tiānfreezing weather; frosty sky
• 霜害shuāng hàifrostbite; frost damage (to crop)
• 霜晨shuāng chénfrosty morning
• 霜条shuāng tiáopopsicle
• 霜灾shuāng zāifrost damage (to crop)
• 霜白shuāng báifrosty
• 霜花shuāng huāfrost forming a pattern on a surface; rime
• 霜雪shuāng xuěfrost and snow; (fig.) snowy white (hair); adversity
• 霜露shuāng lùfrost and dew; fig. difficult conditions
• 霜淇淋shuāng qí línsoft ice-cream

Words containing 霜

• 雪上加霜xuě shàng jiā shuāng(idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury
• 风霜fēng shuāngwind and frost; fig. hardships
• 防晒霜fáng shài shuāngsuntan lotion; sunscreen cream
• 冰霜bīng shuāng(literary) ice formed in freezing weather as frost or icicles etc…
• 早霜zǎo shuāngearly frost
• 白霜bái shuānghoar frost
• 眼霜yǎn shuāngeye cream
• 秋霜qiū shuāngautumn frost; fig. white hair as sign of old age
• 糖霜táng shuāngfrosting; icing
• 结霜jié shuāngto frost up
• 除霜chú shuāngto defrost; defrosting
• 面霜miàn shuāngfacial cream (cosmetics)
• 润肤霜rùn fū shuāngmoisturizer
• 无霜期wú shuāng qīfrost-free period
• 护手霜hù shǒu shuānghand cream; hand lotion
• 隔离霜gé lí shuāngpre-makeup cream; makeup base; foundation primer
• 黄柳霜Huáng Liǔ shuāngAnna May Wong (1905-1961), Chinese American Hollywood actress
• 冷若冰霜lěng ruò bīng shuāngas cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid
• 欺霜傲雪qī shuāng ào xuě(lit.) cold-resistant (idiom); (fig.) remaining strong in harsh conditions; resilient…
• 金鸡纳霜jīn jī nà shuāngquinine powder
• 风霜雨雪fēng shuāng yǔ xuě(lit.) wind, frost, rain and snow (idiom); (fig.) all kinds of trials and hardships
• 饱经风霜bǎo jīng fēng shuāngweather-beaten; having experienced the hardships of life
• 砒霜pī shuāngwhite arsenic; arsenic trioxide As2O3
• 风中烛，瓦上霜fēng zhōng zhú , wǎ shàng shuānglit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom); fig. (of sb's life) feeble…

Characters that look like 霜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 霖líncontinued rain
• 麋mímoose; river bank
• 嬴Yíngsurname Ying

Sounds the same

Read shuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 双two; double; pair
• 孀(bound form) widow
• 骦used in 骕骦
• 鹴used in 鹔鹴
• 艭boat
• 礵arsenic
• 泷Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)
• 鷞variant of 鹴

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuāng correctly.
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