How would one say "red snow" in Japanese?


This is a simple question, but Google translate hasn't exactly provided an
adequate answer. How would one translate "crimson snow" or "red snow" to
Japanese? And what would the transliteration be?

Alternatively, how about "bloody snow" (further "snow soaked in blood") or
something along those lines?

The only answers I've found so far are せきせつ (sekisetsu) and あかゆき (akayuki) but
I do not know if those are any good!

Thanks in advance!




A simple and unsurprising translation should be 赤い雪 ( _akai yuki_ , "red
snow"). If you want something more nuanced, "crimson snow" is 深紅の雪 ( _shinku
no yuki_ ) and "blood-soaked snow" is 血に染まった雪 ( _chi ni somatta yuki_ ).

By せきせつ/あかゆき, did you mean 赤雪? How did you come up with this? It's not a word
recognized by an average Japanese speaker, and [you cannot coin a new word by
combining arbitrary two
kanji](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17996/5010). せきせつ is usually
interpreted as 積雪 which means "accumulation of snow on the ground". On the
other hand, 白雪 (しらゆき) exists as a word, and you can safely use it to refer to
"white snow".

