雹 Stroke Order

雹 [báo] 1. Ice pellets or ice blocks formed by the condensation of water vapor in the air when it cools, often falling with heavy rain in the summer. Example: 冰雹 (bīng báo) - hail; 雹子 (báo zi) - hailstone; 雹灾 (báo zāi) - hail disaster. 本义: 冰雹 【Original meaning】: hail 造字法: 形声。从雨，包声 【Character formation】: Phonetic-semantic compound, composed of the elements for "rain" and the sound "bao". 引: 1. In the "Great Ceremony of Confucianism, Zengzi, Round Heaven": The exclusive energy of the sun manifests as hail. Note: "When the sun's energy is in the rain, it is warm like soup, the cold energy is thin and does not enter, thus it turns into hail, just like boiling soup in a sealed vessel sinking into the spring yields ice." 2. "Plain Questions, Six Original Normal Records": Cold water overcomes fire, resulting in hail. 3. Tang dynasty, Li Chaowei's "Liuyia's Legend": Hail, snow, and rain all fell at once. 例: 如: 雹霰 (hái shàn) - hail mixed with snowflakes. (*This explanation references traditional dictionary interpretations.) （​之又音）