霜
frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream
霜 character breakdown
each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])
appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
相
=
木
+
目
:
Mnemonic symbol: I take "eye" and "tree" as resembling an ent, an alive tree. Xi Shi (xi) portrays (相) an ent (相) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Unfortunately she's really bad at painting, and her portrait resembles more a Christmas tree (木). The Eye of Providence (目) enters and, just from the shape of the Christmas Tree, instantly recognizes its own portrait (相).
rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet
Characters with 霜 as component
arsenic
see 驌驦|骕骦[su4 shuang1]
used in 鷫鸘|鹔鹴[su4 shuang1]
Words with 霜
as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner / frigid
(literary) ice formed in freezing weather as frost or icicles etc (often used as a metaphor for moral uprightness, strictness, sternness or aloofness)
one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
Sentences with 霜
霜 currently does not appear in any sentence.