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冫

冫

冫 U+51AB, 冫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51AB
← 冪
[U+51AA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冬 →
[U+51AC]
See also: 氷, 氵, 疒, and 仌

Translingual

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Radical character form with two origins:

  • Simplified from 仌.
  • Simplified from 氵 (water radical), as in 减 (from 減).

Han character

冫 (radical 15 冫+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 戈一 (IM), four-corner 30100)

  1. ice
  2. Kangxi radical #15, ⼎ ‎(“ice”).

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/冫
  • 减

References

  • KangXi: page 131, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1607
  • Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 295, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+51AB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 冫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冫
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (仌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冫 *prɯŋ
冰 *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ
砅 *pʰrɯŋ, *rads
馮 *brɯŋ, *bɯŋ
憑 *bɯŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 筆陵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piŋ/
Li
Rong		 /piəŋ/
Wang
Li		 /pĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bīng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ping ›
Old
Chinese		 /*p.rəŋ/ (dialect: *p.r- > *pr-)
English ice

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 冫
Reading # 1/1
No. 855
Phonetic
component		 仌
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 冫
Old
Chinese		 /*prɯŋ/

Definitions

冫

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References

Japanese

Kanji

冫

(Radical)

  1. ice radical (にすい)

Readings

References

  • JIS: 5152
  • Kuten: 4950
  • Shift JIS: 9971
  • EUC-JP: D1D2
  • Frequency: radical
  • Nelson: not listed
  • New Nelson: 409
  • Halpern: 1923
  • Halpern Learners: not listed
  • Heisig: not listed
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 2b0.1
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

Appears only as a radical.

Korean

Hanja

冫 • ‎(bing)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 빙 (revised: bing, McCune-Reischauer: ping, Yale: ping)
  • Name (hangeul): 얼음 (revised: eoreum)
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Vietnamese

Han character

冫 (băng)

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References

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