Inspired by this question on the Spanish stack exchange Things like drizzle, mist, or downpour?
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2What have you found so far?– Mou某 ♦Oct 19, 2019 at 0:21
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There are many types of rain in Chinese vocabulary
雨: rain
煙雨: misty rain
微雨: drizzle
毛毛細雨/ 毛毛雨/ 微絲細雨: very light rain/ drizzle
細雨 : light rain
雨霧: rain and fog
過雲雨: brief rain
長命雨/ 長雨 long lasting rain
晴雨/ 晴天雨: sunny sky rain
夜雨: night rain
連夜雨: all night rain
分龍雨: narrow area rain (you can see clear sky few miles away)
大雨: heavy rain
傾盤大雨/ 滂沱大雨/ 豪雨: heavy rain/ downpour
驟雨: sudden rain
局部地區性驟雨: regional sudden rain
全國性大雨: nation wide heavy rain
陣雨: intermittent rain
暴雨: severe rain/ heavy downpour
狂風暴雨: strong wind and severe rain
暴風雨/ 雨暴: rain storm
雷雨: thunder and rain
熱帶雨 : tropical rain
冷雨: cold rain
冰雨: icy rain
春雨: spring rain
夏雨: summer rain
秋雨: autumn rain
冬雨: winter rain
梅雨: plum season rain (of middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze in late spring and early summer)
山雨: mountains rain
平原雨: rain over the plain
海上雨: rain over the sea
天降甘霖/ 甘霖: life giving rain from heaven (classical term)
及時雨: needed rain that falls in time (idiom for "help that comes in time)
黑雨 : black rain (highest level of warning in the rainstorm warning system in Hong Kong)