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Kanji Detail for 氷 - "ice, to freeze"

氷

  • Meaning

    氷 means "ice, to freeze."

    1. Ice - Frozen water.

    2. Freeze - To become solid from cold.

    3. Pure - Clean and unblemished like ice.

  • Words using 氷

    • 氷山 ひょうざん Listen iceberg
    • 氷河 ひょうが Listen glacier
    • 南氷洋 なんひょうよう Listen Antarctic Ocean

  • Four-character idioms with 氷

    • 夏虫疑氷 かちゅうぎひょう Listen being narrow-minded due to limited experience; refusing to believe in things outside of one's own limited experience
    • 月下氷人 げっかひょうじん Listen go-between; matchmaker; Cupid

  • Origin of 氷

    The old form 冰 sets 冫, ice, beside 水, water: water frozen. The modern 氷 shrinks the ice to a single dot set on the water itself.

    How to remember it: Water 水 with one dot of ice on it — frozen.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: ice, to freeze
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こおり, ひだか, びん)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 氷

    Given names 氷(こおり)Listen

    Surnames 氷(ひだか)Listen 氷(びん)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    icicle; ice; hail; freeze; congeal

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    ice, frost, icicles; cold

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 冰[bing1]

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hyoh(ヒョウ) ヒョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hi(ひ) ひ

    koo.ru(こお-る) こお-る

    koori(こおり) こおり

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    ice to freeze pure arctic chill cold crystal frigid frost frozen glacial glacier hail icicle polar sleet snow slush melt

Sentences including 氷

  • May i have an ice bag?

  • Please bring an ice bag.

  • I wish i could show you the pretty ice on the trees.

  • The water turned to ice.

  • We walked across the ice.

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