bīng

ice

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ice

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Ancient form of . Depicts chunks 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
林志強《《文源》評注》p.45鄒暁麗《基础漢字形義釋源》p.208
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica