冰山
bīng​shān HSK7

iceberg

冰山 bīng​shān
iceberg noun
A massive piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water

考虑一个冰山，甚至更简单，水中的冰块。

kǎo​lǜ yī​ge bīng​shān, shèn​zhì gèng jiǎn​dān, shuǐ zhōng de bīng​kuài.

Imagine an iceberg, or even simpler, an ice cube in water.

unreliable backer
A person or group used for support that cannot be relied on for long, suggesting they may disappear quickly like melting ice.
ice-covered mountain
A mountain permanently covered in ice or snow

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.16 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.43 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)