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Kanji for Snow
The kanji for “snow” is 雪, read setsu and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
雪
snow
Snow; pure, quiet and beautiful.
Snow in Japanese poetry often stands for purity and the passing of time.
11 strokes On reading セツ (setsu) Kun reading ゆき (yuki) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: snow
Readings used for names on Nazuke: setsu, yuki
In Japan it appears in about 525 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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