noun
drizzle; scattered rain
Archaic literary term for light, intermittent rain. Not used in modern everyday Japanese; replaced by words like 小雨 (こさめ) or 霧雨 (きりさめ).
古い和歌には「疎雨」が秋の情景として詠まれることがある。
In old waka poetry, '疎雨' is sometimes used to evoke an autumn scene.
Archaic kanji spelling for 'drizzle' or 'scattered rain'. The character 疎 means 'sparse' or 'scattered'.
Variant kanji spelling using 疏, an older form of 疎. Rarely encountered.
Obscure variant kanji spelling. Extremely rare.
Compound of 疎 (so, 'sparse') and 雨 (u, 'rain'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows classical Chinese poetic usage.