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雨yǔ

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雨

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Shuowen

雨. The character depicts a horizontal line representing the sky, with four droplets falling beneath it to symbolize rain. In oracle bone script this was a direct pictogram of precipitation from the heavens, and the form has remained essentially unchanged since the Shang dynasty, preserving that primordial image of water falling from the clouds above.

Pinyin

yǔ· HSK 1