冰
Meanings
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- 1.ice
- 2.CL:块[kuài]
- 3.to chill sth
- 4.(of an object or substance) to feel cold
- 5.(of a person) cold
- 6.unfriendly
- 7.(slang) methamphetamine
- 1.variant of 冰[bīng]
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Wiktionary
- 1.ice (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿／𫩥 c)
- 2.ice-cold
- 3.to freeze; to ice
- 4.methamphetamine; meth; ice
- 5.a surname, Bing
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ): phonetic 冫 (OC *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ) + semantic 水. The above vulgar character in Shuowen Jiezi is 凝. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-pəm (“to freeze; snow”) (provisionally reconstructed). Compare Proto-Tani *pam (“snow”), Japhug jpɣom (“to freeze”), tɤjpɣom (“ice”), and perhaps Tangut 𘒓 (*par¹, “to congeal”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019; Jacques, 2014). Within Chinese, 凌 (OC *rɯŋ, “ice”) and possibly 凝 (OC *ŋrɯŋ, “to congeal”) are usually considered cognates (STEDT; Zhengzhang, 2003; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). However, they are phonologically difficult to reconcile with the Tibeto-Burman cognates above (cf. Schuessler, 2007). STEDT also includes 雱 (OC *pʰaːŋ, “heavy (snowfall)”) and 霙 (OC *qraŋ, “snowflake”) in the Chinese comparandum of (what it reconstructs) Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am. Alternatively, this may be related to Old Khmer ប្រិង៑ (“to harden; to solidify”), from រិង៑ (“to dry up”), although the meanings are difficult to reconcile (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
這是冰塊。
This is ice.
這是冰塊。
This is an ice cube.
那面牆冰涼。
That wall is cold.
水结成冰了。
The water turned to ice.
我想吃冰淇凌。
I want to eat ice cream.
它冷得像冰一樣。
It's as cold as ice.
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