níng
coagulate
Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 疑 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ](r)əŋ (< uvular?) | nging | níng | freeze, coagulate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.9747% of movies
2330th most common character in movies
1631st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+51DD |
Shuowen | “冰,水堅也。从仌,从水。凝,俗冰从疑。” |
Sources
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