音読み: ム
訓読み: きり
画数: 19
部首: ⻗（あめかんむり）
Meaning
Fog / Mist / Haze
- 霧 — fog / mist
- 濃霧 — thick fog / dense fog
- 霧雨 — light misty rain / drizzle
- 霧中 — literally “in the fog,” also used for “deeply absorbed / lost in something”
- 霧散 — to vanish like mist / to scatter and disappear
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霧 begins with the rain radical ⻗, tying it to weather in the air. The rest gives the reading ム and suggests something spreading out and obscuring vision. 霧 is not heavy rain — it’s suspended moisture that hides shapes and blurs distance. In expressions like 霧中, it even means being “lost in a fog,” mentally or emotionally.
We talk about weather as a 状態 — a state or condition. 霧 describes that state when water is everywhere in the air. It’s not raining down, it’s just hanging there, wrapping everything. So 霧 is less “storm,” more “the world itself has turned hazy.”
霧雨 — light misty rain / drizzle