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The use of passive measurements for this purpose has not been extensively explored, despite being available for over four decades. We utilize the Micro-Wave Humidity Sounder-2 (MWHS-2) to relate microwave brightness temperatures to hydrometeor types derived from the global precipitation measurement\u2019s (GPM) dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR), which are classified into liquid, mixed, and ice phases. To achieve this, we utilize a convolutional neural network model with an attention mechanism that learns feature representations of MWHS-2 observations from spatial and temporal dimensions. The proposed algorithm classified hydrometeors with 84.7% accuracy using testing data and captured the geographical characteristics of hydrometeor types well in most areas, especially for frozen precipitation. We then evaluated our results by comparing predictions from a different year against DPR retrievals seasonally and globally. Our global annual cycles of precipitation occurrences largely agreed with DPR retrievals with biases being 8.4%, \u221211.8%, and 3.4%, respectively. 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