凍
dòng HSK5

freeze

冻 (凍) dòng
feel cold verb
to feel very cold or suffer from the cold

他在外面冻得直发抖。

tā zài wài​miàn dòng de zhí fā​dǒu.

He was shivering from the cold outside.

freeze verb
to turn into ice or become hard due to cold

冬天气温降到零下，户外的自来水管都被冻住了。

dōng​tiān qì​wēn jiàng​dào líng​xià, hù​wài de zì​lái​shuǐ guǎn dōu bèi dòng zhù le.

In winter, when temperatures drop below freezing, the outdoor water pipes all freeze up.

jelly noun
a jellied food substance such as aspic or gelatin

奶奶做的肉冻味道非常鲜美。

nǎi​nai zuò de ròu​dòng wèi​dao fēi​cháng xiān​měi.

The meat aspic made by Grandma is delicious.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,127th most common 30.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,649th most common 34.6 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.5 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
38.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
冻
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+51CD

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)