冫

See also: 氷, 氵, ソ, ン, 疒, and 仌

冫 U+51AB, 冫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51AB ← 冪 [U+51AA] CJK Unified Ideographs 冬 → [U+51AC]

⼎ U+2F0E, ⼎ KANGXI RADICAL ICE ← ⼍ [U+2F0D] Kangxi Radicals ⼏ → [U+2F0F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #15, ⼎.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/冫
• 丬 次 飡 馮 氺 疒 兆 习 㭍 𫝓 㞑 弱 率

References

• KangXi: page 131, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1607
• Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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)⁺
    • Pinyin: bīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
    • Wade–Giles: ping1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bing¹
    • Yale: bīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pên
    • Hakka Romanization System: ben´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ben¹
    • Sinological 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.

Usage notes

• This radical is also referred as 兩點水／两点水 (liǎngdiǎnshuǐ) or 冰字旁 (bīngzìpáng).

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Japanese

Kanji

冫

(Radical)

1. “ice” radical (二水, nisui)

Readings

• Go-on: 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 (nisuwi, historical)}

Usage notes

Appears only as a radical.

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.

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Korean

Hanja

冫 (eumhun 얼음 빙 (eoreum bing))

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Vietnamese

Han character

冫: Hán Nôm readings: băng

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References

• Nom Foundation