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

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #15, ⼎ (“ice”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/冫

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

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

Radical form of 仌.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bīng (bing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pên
• 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
    • Guangdong Romanization: bing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pên
    • Hakka Romanization System: ben´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ben¹
    • IPA: /pen²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peng
    • Tâi-lô: ping
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pɨŋ/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*p.rəŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯŋ/

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

1. Radical form of 仌.

References

• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary

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Japanese

Kanji

冫

(Radical)

1. ice radical (にすい)

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō)^{←ひよう (fyou, historical)}
• Kan’on: ひょう (hyō)^{←ひよう (fyou, historical)}
• Kun: こおり (kōri, 冫)^{←こほり (kofori, historical)}; にすい (nisui, 冫)^{←にすゐ (nisi, historical)}

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)

• 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

• Nom Foundation