HSK Guide

部首 15ice

bīng (first tone, high and level)

ice

部首 152 画0 汉字

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.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.