霞 (xiá): rosy clouds
霞 (xiá) is a Chinese character meaning “rosy clouds.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 雨 (semantic) and 叚 (phonetic). It ranks #1992 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 霞 rain. Its radical form 雨 (rain) appears in many related characters such as 雨 (yǔ, rain), 零 (líng, zero), 雪 (xuě, snow).
Definitions
- rosy clouds
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 晚霞 | wǎn xiá | sunset glow |
| 霞光 | xiá guāng | multicolored sunlight of sunrise or sunset |
| 王军霞 | wáng jūn xiá | Wang Junxia (1973-), Chinese long-distance runner |
| 霞山区 | xiá shān qū | Xiashan, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 霞多丽 | xiá duō lì | Chardonnay (grape type) |
| 徐霞客游记 | xú xiá kè yóu jì | Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries, a book of travel records by 徐霞客[Xu2 Xia2 ke4] on geology, geography, plants etc |
| 林青霞 | lín qīng xiá | Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress |
| 伏明霞 | fú míng xiá | Fu Mingxia (1978-), Chinese diving champion |
| 丹霞地貌 | dān xiá dì mào | Danxia landform (red conglomerate and sandstone) |
| 丹霞山 | dān xiá shān | Mt Danxia in Shaoguan 韶關|韶关[Shao2 guan1], Guangdong |
| 霞山 | xiá shān | see 霞山區|霞山区[Xia2 shan1 Qu1] |
| 霞飞 | xiá fēi | Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One |
| 徐霞客 | xú xiá kè | Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記|徐霞客游记[Xu2 ... |
| 烟霞 | yān xiá | haze |
| 栖霞区 | qī xiá qū | Qixia, a district of Nanjing City 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
霞 appears in 23 compound words: 35 as the first character, 35 as the last, and 30 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 霞 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
晚霞映红了半边天，景色非常壮观。
Wǎnxiá yìng hóng le bàn biān tiān, jǐngsè fēicháng zhuàngguān.
The sunset glow reddened half the sky; the scenery is very spectacular.
福建霞浦:渔排上的党支部
fú jiàn xiá pǔ : yú pái shàng de dǎng zhī bù
Xiapu, Fujian: A Party Branch on a Fish Farm
校友叶仲亮、叶玉霞之女叶景睿捐千万 东海再添第六间AI P...
jiào yǒu xié zhòng liàng , xié yù xiá zhī nǚ xié jǐng 睿 juān qiān wàn dōng hǎi zài tiān dì liù jiān A I P . . .
Alumni Ye Zhongliang and Ye Yuxia's daughter Ye Jingrui donated 10 million to add a sixth AI P...
雷军公布新一代SU7赤霞红配色,此前已开启小订
léi jūn gōng bù xīn yī dài chì xiá hóng pèi sè , cǐ qián yǐ kāi qǐ xiǎo dìng
Lei Jun unveils the new SU7 in Crimson Red, with pre-orders already open.
雷軍:新一代小米電動車SU7全新顏色赤霞紅
léi 軍 xīn yī dài xiǎo mǐ 電 動 車 quán xīn 顏 sè chì xiá 紅
Lei Jun: New Color "Crimson Glow" for Xiaomi's Next-Gen Electric Vehicle SU7
...10.HK)披露新一代SU7全新顏色「赤霞紅」
. . . . pī lù xīn yī dài quán xīn 顏 sè chì xiá 紅
...10.HK) unveils the new "Red Cloud" color for the next-generation SU7.
克拉娃嫉妒柳霞。
Kèlāwá jídù Liǔxiá.
Klava envied Lyusya.
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