落雪

luòxuě

verb

Meanings

1 to snow (literary/dialectal)
2 fallen snow (literary)

Characters

Examples

山顶又落雪了。

Shāndǐng yòu luòxuě le.

It's snowing on the mountaintop again.

落雪覆盖了整片田野。

Luòxuě fùgàile zhěng piàn tiányě.

Fallen snow blanketed the entire field.

Tips

register

Literary and Wu-dialect (Shanghainese, etc.) flavor. In standard Mandarin you'd say 下雪 (xiàxuě) — but 落雪 shows up in poetry, song lyrics, and southern speech. Compare 落叶 'falling leaves,' 落雨 'falling rain' (also literary).

Stroke Order

落 luò

雪 xuě