bīng
ice
Original form of 冰. Pictograph of the texture of ice (i.e. the crystalline lines as seen on ice).
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Iconic component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+4ECC |
Shuowen | “仌,凍也。象水凝之形。” |
Sources
林志強《《文源》評注》p.45
鄒暁麗《基础漢字形義釋源》p.208
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