Rain in Chinese (Mandarin): 雨 (yǔ)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 雨

• 雨

  Rain. It began as a drawing of raindrops falling from a cloud.

  8 strokes

Third tone. To rain is 下雨 (xià yǔ), "rain comes down". 雨 sits on top of weather characters such as 雪 (snow) and 雷 (léi, thunder).

More examples with 雨

• 雨很大。

  Yǔ hěn dà.

  The rain is heavy.

• 我喜欢在雨里跳。

  我喜歡在雨裡跳。

  Wǒ xǐhuan zài yǔ li tiào.

  I like jumping in the rain.

How to write 雨 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.