雹 (báo): hail
雹 (báo) is a Chinese character meaning “hail.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 雨 (semantic) and 包 (phonetic). It ranks #3134 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 雹 rain. Its radical form 雨 (rain) appears in many related characters such as 雨 (yǔ, rain), 雪 (xuě, snow), 雷 (léi, thunder).
Definitions
- hail
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冰雹noun | bīng báo | hail |
| 雹子noun | báo zi | hail |
| 雹灾noun | báo zāi | disaster caused by hail |
| 雹块 | báo kuài | hailstone |
| 雹暴noun | báo bào | hailstorm |
雹 appears in 5 compound words: 80 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 雹 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
雹字由13笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
báo zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "雹" consists of 13 strokes and has a very ingenious structure.
抬头看看天 暴风雨前兆藏不住 积雨云：强对流天气的征兆，常伴随雷电冰雹。
tái tóu kàn kàn tiān bào fēng yǔ qián zhào zàng bù zhù jī yǔ yún : qiáng duì liú tiān qì de zhēng zhào , cháng bàn suí léi diàn bīng báo .
Look up at the sky—the signs of a storm can’t be hidden. Cumulonimbus clouds: a sign of severe convective weather, often accompanied by lightning and hail.
半道下雨/中暑/下冰雹骑不动了怎么办？
bàn dào xià yǔ zhōng shǔ xià bīng báo qí bù dòng le zěn má bàn ?
What should you do if it starts raining, you get heatstroke, or hail falls and you can’t ride anymore?
天文台 : 预料本港短期内可能受冰雹影响 黄雨警告生效
tiān wén tái : yù liào běn gǎng duǎn qī nèi kě néng shòu bīng báo yǐng xiǎng huáng yǔ jǐng gào shēng xiào
Hong Kong Observatory: Hail expected to affect Hong Kong in the near future; Yellow Rainstorm Warning in effect
...警告信号生效 天文台预料本港短期内或受冰雹影响
. . . jǐng gào xìn hào shēng xiào tiān wén tái yù liào běn gǎng duǎn qī nèi huò shòu bīng báo yǐng xiǎng
...Warning in effect: The Observatory forecasts that Hong Kong may be affected by hail in the near future
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 雨 (rain) component
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