霜

frost

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ソウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

しも

Stroke Order

17 / 17

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:17

JLPT:N1

Frequency:2151

Vocabulary

ソウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
降霜	コウソウ	frost formation; frost
星霜	セイソウ	years; time
霜害	ソウガイ	frost damage
霜月	ソウゲツ	eleventh month of the lunar calendar
霜雪	ソウセツ	frost and snow

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
霜	しも	frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
霜降り	しもふり	speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.); marbling (of beef); (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water; formation of frost
星霜	せいぞう	years; time
霜解け	しもどけ	thaw; thawing
霜月	しもつき	eleventh month of the lunar calendar

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

thunder, lightning bolt

demand, request, need

quake, shake, tremble, quiver, shiver

clan, enclosure

box, chest, case, bin, railway car

zero, spill, overflow, nothing, cipher

inter-, mutual, together, each other, minister of state, councillor, aspect, phase, physiognomy

atmosphere, fog