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冰

bīng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character Measure word 块

冰 (bīng) means "ice; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 冰 means

1. ice
2. to chill sth
3. (of an object or substance) to feel cold
4. (of a person) cold
5. unfriendly
6. slangmethamphetamine

Other readings

冰 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• bīngvariant of {冰|bīng}

Example sentences

• 这是冰块。
  Zhè shì bīngkuài.
  This is an ice cube.
• 下冰雹了！
  Xià bīngbáo le!
  It's hailing!
• 湖冻冰了。
  The lake was frozen.
• 我冰死了。
  I'm freezing!
• 水是冰的。
  The water is frozen.
• 冰箱脏了。
  The refrigerator is dirty.

Words starting with 冰

• 冰箱bīng xiāngrefrigerator; (old) icebox
• 冰雹bīng báohail; hailstone
• 冰冷bīng lěngice-cold
• 冰凉bīng liángice-cold
• 冰淇淋bīng qí línice cream
• 冰雪bīng xuěice and snow
• 冰川bīng chuānglacier
• 冰块bīng kuàiice cube; ice chunk
• 冰山bīng shāniceberg; ice-covered mountain; (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long
• 冰棍bīng gùnpopsicle; ice lolly
• 冰岛Bīng dǎoIceland
• 冰激凌bīng jī língice cream
• 冰心Bīng XīnBing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer
• 冰点bīng diǎnfreezing point
• 冰冻bīng dòngto freeze
• 冰糖bīng tángcrystal sugar; rock candy
• 冰封bīng fēngto freeze over; to ice over; icebound
• 冰天雪地bīng tiān xuě dìa world of ice and snow
• 冰河bīng héglacier
• 冰镇bīng zhèniced
• 冰柜bīng guìfreezer
• 冰糖葫芦bīng táng hú lusugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer; tanghulu
• 冰窖bīng jiàoicehouse
• 冰球bīng qiúice hockey; puck

Words containing 冰

• 滑冰huá bīngto skate; skating
• 结冰jié bīngto freeze
• 溜冰liū bīngice skating; (slang) to do meth
• 电冰箱diàn bīng xiāngrefrigerator
• 李冰Lǐ BīngLi Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan 都江堰
• 李冰冰Lǐ Bīng bīngLi Bingbing (1973-), PRC film actress and pop star
• 如履薄冰rú lǚ bó bīng(lit.) as if walking on thin ice (idiom); (fig.) extremely cautious
• 溜冰场liū bīng chǎngice rink; skating rink
• 破冰pò bīng(fig.) to break the ice; to begin to restore amicable relations
• 北冰洋Běi bīng yángArctic ocean
• 干冰gān bīngdry ice (i.e. frozen CO2)
• 加冰jiā bīng(of a drink) iced; on the rocks
• 去冰qù bīngwithout ice; no ice (when ordering drinks)
• 坚冰jiān bīngice; (fig.) frosty relationship
• 水冰shuǐ bīngwater ice (i.e. frozen H2O)
• 疑冰yí bīngignorant; doubt stemming from ignorance; (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 庄子
• 积冰jī bīngice accretion
• 融冰róng bīng(lit. or fig.) thawing
• 退冰tuì bīngto thaw (frozen food); to bring to room temperature
• 除冰chú bīngto defrost; to get rid of ice
• 加冰块jiā bīng kuàion the rocks; with ice; iced
• 南冰洋Nán bīng yángSouthern Ocean
• 大冰期dà bīng qīice age
• 思乐冰Sī lè bīngSlurpee (drink)

Characters built on 水

These share the phonetic component 水 (shuǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 荥xíngused in 荥阳
• 颍Yǐngsurname Ying; river in Henan and Anhui

Characters that look like 冰

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 体tǐbody; form; style
• 延yánto prolong; to extend; to delay
• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 巡xúnto patrol; to make one's rounds; classifier for rounds of drinks
• 冻dòngto freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
• 沐mùto bathe; to cleanse; to receive

Sounds the same

Read bīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兵soldiers; a force; an army
• 屏used in 屏营
• 槟used in 槟榔; Taiwan pr. bīn
• 冫"ice" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 15), occurring in 冰
• 掤arrow-quiver cover
• 栟Trachycarpus excelsa
• 并short name for Taiyuan 太原
• 仌old variant of 冰
• 梹variant of 槟

Where 冰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 25 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bīng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.