U+971C "霜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+971C "霜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "frost," referring to the ice crystals that form on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, specifically the white deposit of frozen water vapor. It is composed of the "rain" radical (雨) on top, which provides a semantic hint about weather or precipitation, and a phonetic component from the character 相 (xiāng) beneath, which gives a clue to its pronunciation. This character is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese (where it is read as shimo or sō), and it appears in compound words to describe frost or related cold weather phenomena, such as 霜降 (shuāngjiàng), which denotes the solar term "Frost's Descent" in the traditional East Asian calendar.