Character · Nature
雨
あめ ameさみだれ samidareあまだれ amadareうどく udoku
rain
Composition
Origin
A pictogram of drops falling from the sky beneath the line of the clouds.
In the thoughts
- 雨垂れamadareraindrop
- 雨読udokuread when raining
- 五月雨samidareearly-summer rains
Proverbs carrying this character
- 006 雨垂れ石を穿つ Dripping water wears through stone.
- 077 雨降って地固まる After the rain, the ground hardens.
- 135 晴耕雨読 Plow when it shines, read when it rains.
- 162 五月雨をあつめて早し最上川 Gathering the rains of June, how swiftly flows the Mogami.
- 192 止まない雨はない There is no rain that does not stop.
- 225 五月雨や大河を前に家二軒 June rains — facing the swollen river, two houses.
- 295 雨ニモマケズ 風ニモマケズ Yielding neither to the rain, nor to the wind.