雨衣
yǔ yī · HSK 6
raincoat
🧥🌧️ rain + clothes = raincoat
雨 (yǔ) means rain and 衣 (yī) means clothing. Put them together and you get exactly what it says: the clothing you wear for rain. The pronunciation 'yǔ yī' even sounds a bit like 'you, me' — we both need one when it pours.
雨 — pictograph: sky 一 + cloud 冂 + four water drops
雨 is a pictograph showing rain falling from a cloud under the sky. The top horizontal stroke represents the sky, the enclosing shape depicts a cloud, and the four small strokes inside are falling raindrops. Its meaning 'rain' has stayed consistent since oracle bone script.