bīng

ice

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Original form of . Pictograph of the texture of ice (i.e. the crystalline lines as seen on ice).

Components

Iconic component

Depicts a chunk of ice.

Iconic component

Depicts a chunk of ice.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpŋrɯŋ
ŋrɯŋ

說文解字

《說文》:“仌,凍也。象水凝之形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica