# 雪上加霜 (xuěshàngjiāshuāng)

In Mandarin Chinese, 雪上加霜 (xuěshàngjiāshuāng) means “to make matters even worse”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: to make matters even worse
- Pinyin: xuěshàngjiāshuāng (xue3 shang4 jia1 shuang1)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 这场大雨真是雪上加霜。
  Zhè chǎng dàyǔ zhēn shì xuěshàngjiāshuāng.
  This heavy rain really made matters even worse.

## Characters

- [雪](https://hanziro.com/word/xue-snow/) (xuě): snow
- [上](https://hanziro.com/word/shang-up/) (shàng): up; above
- [加](https://hanziro.com/word/jia-add/) (jiā): to add; plus
- [霜](https://hanziro.com/word/shuang-frost/) (shuāng): frost; frosting

https://hanziro.com/word/xue-shang-jia-shuang-make-matters-even/

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