bīng
ice
冫 is a component form of 冰. Depicts chunks of ice.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.rəŋ (dialect: *p.r- > *pr-) | ping | bīng | ice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 2 |
Unicode | U+51AB |
Shuowen | “仌,凍也。象水凝之形。” |
Sources
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