冰

Stroke order

冰 (Kangxi radical 15, 冫+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈一水 (IME), four-corner 3213₀, composition ⿰冫水)

• 𢬄, 栤, 𥒜, 𦀋, 𨀰, 𨋲, 𣑏, 𭜯

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 131, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1612
• Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 295, character 9
• Unihan data for U+51B0

Historical forms of the character 冰
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Vulgar character

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ) : semantic 水 + phonetic 仌 (OC *pŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋ). The above vulgar character in Shuowen Jiezi is 凝.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am (“to freeze; snow”) (provisionally reconstructed). Compare Proto-Tani *pam (“snow”), Japhug jpɣom (“to freeze”), tɤjpɣom (“ice”), and perhaps Tangut 𘒓 (*par¹, “to congeal”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019; Jacques, 2014).

Within Chinese, 凌 (OC *rɯŋ, “ice”) and possibly 凝 (OC *ŋrɯŋ, “to congeal”) are usually considered cognates (STEDT; Zhengzhang, 2003; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). However, they are phonologically difficult to reconcile with the Tibeto-Burman cognates above (cf. Schuessler, 2007).

STEDT also includes 雱 (OC *pʰaːŋ, “heavy (snowfall)”) and 霙 (OC *qraŋ, “snowflake”) in the Chinese comparandum of Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am.

Alternatively, this may be related to Old Khmer ប្រិង៑ (“to harden; to solidify”), from រិង៑ (“to dry up”), although the meanings are difficult to reconcile (Schuessler, 2007).

冰

1. ice (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿 c)

   冰塊／冰块  ―  bīngkuài  ―  ice cube

2. ice-cold
3. to freeze; to ice
4. (slang, drug) methamphetamine; meth; ice

   溜冰  ―  liūbīng  ―  to smoke meth

5. a surname: Bing

• (ice):

• (methamphetamine): 甲基苯丙胺 (jiǎjī běnbǐng'àn), 甲基安非他命 (jiǎjī'ānfēitāmìng), 冰毒 (bīngdú)

• “冰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 氷

• 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, 冰)^{←こほり (kofori, 冰, historical)}; こおる (kōru, 冰る)^{←こほる (koforu, 冰る, historical)}; ひ (hi, 冰)

冰 (eumhun 얼음 빙 (eoreum bing))

1. Alternative form of 氷 (“Hanja form^? of 빙 (“ice”).”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

• 𫥇 (băng)

冰: Hán Việt readings: băng (悲(bi)陵(lăng)切(thiết))
冰: Nôm readings: băng, phăng, bâng, văng, bưng

1. chữ Hán form of băng (“ice”).