Radical 雨

8 strokes

It’s handy that the character for “rain” needs a “pouring rain” story!

When this appears at the top of other characters, “outer limits” gets compressed into “cover”. remember that the same thing happened for “esteem” (542a).

[雨衣 (437) yǔyī raincoat]

[下雨 (43) xià yǔ rain; to rain]

/ Picture a wheel left out in the rain: “That Teddy’s useless— he’s always leaving things out in the pouring rain.”