冰
bīng HSK4

ice

冰 bīng
ice noun
frozen water or a similar solid substance

水结成了冰。

shuǐ jié​chéng le bīng.

The water froze into ice.

cold noun
feeling cold to the touch when referring to an object or substance

你的手怎么这么冰？

nǐ de shǒu zěn​me zhè​me bīng?

Why are your hands so cold?

chill noun
to cool food or drinks using ice or refrigeration

把这瓶啤酒冰一下再喝。

bǎ zhè píng pí​jiǔ bīng yī​xià zài hē.

Chill this bottle of beer before drinking it.

methamphetamine noun
a slang term for crystal meth

他因为贩卖“冰”被警方抓获。

tā yīn​wèi fàn​mài“ bīng” bèi jǐng​fāng zhuā​huò.

He was caught by the police for selling 'ice.'

unfriendly noun
cold, aloof, or distant in manner or attitude

她的态度非常冰，拒人于千里之外。

tā de tài​du fēi​cháng bīng, jù rén yú qiān lǐ zhī​wài.

Her attitude is very icy and keeps people at a distance.

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Classifier

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,070th most common 140.6 per million
Movie subtitles
885th most common 131.2 per million appears in 38% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
47.2 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
52.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+51B0

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