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冰

冰

冰 U+51B0, 冰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51B0
← 冯
[U+51AF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冱 →
[U+51B1]
See also: 氷

Translingual

Han character

冰 (radical 15 冫+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈一水 (IME), four-corner 32130, composition ⿰冫水)

References

  • KangXi: page 131, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1612
  • Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 295, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+51B0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冰
Bronze inscriptions Small 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

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 冰
alt. forms
 
仌
冫
氷
𣲝
𨻱
𣲙

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 冰
Mandarin Beijing /piŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /piŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /piŋ²¹/
Jinan /piŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /piŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /piŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /piŋ²¹/
Xining /piə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /piŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /piŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pin⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pin⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pin⁵⁵/
Kunming /pĩ/
Nanjing /pin³¹/
Hefei /pin²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /piəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /piŋ¹³/
Hohhot /pĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /piŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /pin⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pin³³/
Wenzhou /peŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /piʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /pɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pin³³/
Xiangtan /pin³³/
Gan Nanchang /pin⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /pen⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pen²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /peŋ⁵³/
Nanning /peŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /piŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /piŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /piŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pain⁵⁴/
/peiŋ⁵⁴/ 新
Shantou (Min Nan) /piã³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔbeŋ²³/
Rime
Character 冰
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 冰
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 冰 冰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 856 860
Phonetic
component		 仌 仌
Rime
group		 蒸 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 冫 凝
Old
Chinese		 /*pŋrɯŋ/ /*ŋrɯŋ/
Notes 筆陵切注又切

Definitions

冰

  1. ice
  2. ice-cold
  3. to freeze; to ice
  4. A surname​.
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 冰 – see 凝.
(This character, 冰, is an ancient form of 凝.)

Japanese

Kanji

冰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

冰 • ‎(bing) (hangeul 빙, revised bing, McCune-Reischauer ping)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冰 (băng, bâng, phăng, bưng, văng)

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