Meaning of 雪上加霜
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
xuěshàngjiāshuāng
- (idiom) to make matters even worse
- to add insult to injury
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雪 xuě · snow · 11 strokes
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上 shàng · up · 3 strokes
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加 jiā · to add · 5 strokes
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霜 shuāng · frost · 17 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 雪上加霜.
| 马上 | mǎshàng | at once; right away |
| 晚上 | wǎnshang | evening; night |
| 身上 | shēnshang | on the body; at hand |
| 早上 | zǎoshang | early morning |
| 上次 | shàng cì | last time |
| 路上 | lùshang | on the road; on the way; en route |
| 上班 | shàngbān | to go to work; to be on duty |
| 上车 | shàng chē | to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) |
| 地上 | dìshang | on the ground; on the floor |
| 楼上 | lóu shàng | upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread |
| 车上 | chē shang | |
| 上学 | shàngxué | to go to school; to attend school |
Questions about 雪上加霜
What does 雪上加霜 mean?
雪上加霜 (xuěshàng-jiāshuāng) means "(idiom) to make matters even worse; to add insult to injury".
How do you write 雪上加霜?
雪上加霜 is made of 4 characters: 雪 (11 strokes), 上 (3 strokes), 加 (5 strokes), 霜 (17 strokes). That is 36 strokes in total.
Is 雪上加霜 an HSK word?
Yes. 雪上加霜 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.