冫 Radical 15 — ice
bīng (first tone, high and level)
ice
Radical 152 strokes0 characters
Where the shape comes from
Two marks left in water as it sets — the cracks that run through ice, or the crystals forming on its surface. It is the water radical 氵 with one droplet taken away, which is why it is nicknamed the "two-dot water", and it marks cold: 冷, 冰, 凉, 冬.
characters filed under 冫
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