落雪

luòxuě

verb

Meanings

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

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

山顶又落雪了。

Shāndǐng yòu luòxuě le.

It's snowing on the mountaintop again.

HSK 7-9

落雪覆盖了整片田野。

Luòxuě fùgài le 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 - but 落雪 shows up in poetry, song lyrics, and southern speech. Compare 落叶 'falling leaves' and 落雨 'falling rain' (also literary).

Stroke Order

落 luò

雪 xuě