雪崩

Chinese

		snow	collapse; fall into ruins
trad. (雪崩)		雪	崩
simp. #(雪崩)		雪	崩
anagram		崩雪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuěbēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄅㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³ bang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuěbēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄅㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuěbeng
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh³-pêng¹
    • Yale: sywě-bēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuebeng
    • Palladius: сюэбэн (sjuebɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syut³ bang¹
    • Yale: syut bāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸ bang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xud³ beng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːt̚³ pɐŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

雪崩

1. avalanche

Synonyms

• (Taiwanese Hokkien) 崩雪

Japanese

Kanji in this term
雪	崩
Grade: 2	Grade: S
irregular

Alternative spellings
傾れ 頽れ

Etymology

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of the classical verb 傾る (nadaru), modern 雪崩れる, 傾れる (nadareru, “to slope, descend; of snow, to slide”).

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 雪崩 (xuěbēng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) なだれ [nàdáré] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [na̠da̠ɾe̞]

Noun

雪崩(なだれ) • (nadare) 

1. an avalanche (large sliding mass of snow and ice), snowslide
2. an inclination

   Synonym: 傾斜 (keisha)

3. a collapse, crumbling
4. a rundown of glaze on a piece of pottery, usually a 茶入れ (chaire, “tea container”)

   usually spelled as 頽れ

5. name of a 下座音楽 (geza ongaku)

   Synonym: 雪下ろし (yuki-oroshi)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 雪崩(なだ)れ込(こ)む (nadare komu, “to rush into, surge into”)
• 雪崩(なだれ)現象(げんしょう) (nadare genshō)
• 雪崩(なだれ)道(みち) (nadaremichi)
• 岩屑(がんせつ)雪崩(なだれ) (gansetsu nadare)
• 電子(でんし)雪崩(なだれ) (denshi nadare)
• 人(ひと)雪崩(なだれ) (hito-nadare, “surging crowd”)
• 表層(ひょうそう)雪崩(なだれ) (hyōsō nadare, “surface avalanche”)
• 泡(ほう)雪崩(なだれ) (hō-nadare)
• 雪(ゆき)雪崩(なだれ) (yuki-nadare)

Idioms

• 雪崩(なだれ)を打(う)つ (nadare o utsu, “to flood, swarm”, literally "strike an avalanche")