冫

See also: 氷, 氵, and 疒

§Translingual

Stroke order

§Etymology

Radical form Simplified from 氷 (ice).

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

§Han character

冫 (radical 15 冫+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 戈一 (IM))

1. ice
2. KangXi radical 冫

§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

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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		冫

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bīng (bing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pen
• Min Nan (POJ): peng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ping¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
    • IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bing¹
    • Yale: bīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pen
    • Guangdong: pen¹
    • Hagfa Pinyim:
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peng
    • Tâi-lô: ping
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɪŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (冫, reconstructed)
Character (冫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 蒸 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 筆陵切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɨŋ/	/pi̯əŋ/	/piəŋ/	/pɨŋ/	/piŋ/	/pĭəŋ/	/pieŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (冫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
冫								bīng								‹ ping ›								/*p.rəŋ (dialect: *p.r- > *pr-)/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
冫					855					仌					蒸					0					冫					/*prɯŋ/

§Definitions

冫

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§References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary

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§Japanese

§Kanji

冫

(Radical)

1. ice radical (にすい)

§Readings

• On: ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: こおり (koori)

§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.

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§Korean

§Hanja

冫 (bing) (hangeul 빙, revised bing, McCune-Reischauer ping, Yale ping)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

冫 (băng)

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§References

• Nom Foundation