大雪

Dàxuě
Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 7th-21st December

CEDICT

“Heavy Snow”: one of the solar terms

Wiktionary

二十四节气之一，在每年公曆12月7日或8日

維基詞典

Homographs

大雪 dàxuě

Examples

大雪降低了能见度。

The snow was reducing visibility.

Source: Tatoeba

昨天晚上下大雪了。

It snowed a good deal last night.

Source: Tatoeba

火车因大雪被耽搁了。

The train was delayed because of heavy snowfall.

Source: Tatoeba

学校因大雪停课一天。

School was closed for the day due to the snow.

Source: Tatoeba

整个国家被大雪覆盖了。

The whole country was covered in snow.

Source: Tatoeba

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Entry Composition

=1 大 dà
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 dàjiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=1 大 dài see 大夫 dàifu
2 雪 xuě
  1. snow
  2. (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)

classifier: 場

Containing this entry

鹅毛大雪 émáodàxuě
  1. goose feather snow (idiom)
  2. big heavy snow fall
大雪山 Dàxuěshān