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冻

dòng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 凍

What 冻 means

1. to freeze
2. to feel very cold
3. aspic or jelly

Example sentences

• 我冻死了。
  I'm freezing.
• 肉冻住了。
  The meat is frozen.
• 湖冻冰了。
  The lake was frozen.
• 他被冻死了。
  Tā bèi dòngsǐ le.
  He froze to death.
• 狗被冻死了。
  The dog was frozen to death.
• 他们冻死了。
  They were frozen to death.

Words starting with 冻

• 冻结dòng jiéto freeze (water etc); (fig.) to freeze (assets, prices etc)
• 冻死dòng sǐto freeze to death; to die off in winter
• 冻僵dòng jiāngfrozen stiff; numb with cold
• 冻土dòng tǔfrozen earth; permafrost; tundra
• 冻疮dòng chuāngfrostbite; chilblains
• 冻伤dòng shāngfrostbite
• 冻干dòng gānto freeze-dry; freeze-dried food (such as meat or fruit)
• 冻原dòng yuántundra
• 冻品dòng pǐnfrozen goods; frozen product
• 冻害dòng hài(agriculture) freezing injury
• 冻容dòng róng"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years…
• 冻柜dòng guìreefer (refrigerated shipping container)
• 冻硬dòng yìngto freeze solid; frozen stiff
• 冻穿dòng chuānfrostbite; chilblain
• 冻肉dòng ròucold or frozen meat
• 冻胶dòng jiāogel
• 冻雨dòng yǔfreezing rain
• 冻龄dòng língto maintain a youthful appearance
• 冻土层dòng tǔ céngpermafrost; tundra; layer of frozen soil
• 冻涨dòng zhǎngto freeze (prices, fees etc) (Tw)
• 冻卵dòng luǎnto freeze a woman's eggs for later fertilization; to cryopreserve oocytes

Words containing 冻

• 冷冻lěng dòngto freeze (food etc); (of weather) freezing
• 冰冻bīng dòngto freeze
• 解冻jiě dòngto melt; to thaw; to defrost
• 天寒地冻tiān hán dì dòng(idiom) bitterly cold; frigid
• 速冻sù dòngto quick-freeze
• 化冻huà dòngto defrost
• 封冻fēng dòngto freeze over (of water or land)
• 果冻guǒ dònggelatin dessert
• 肉冻ròu dòngaspic; meat jelly
• 开冻kāi dòngto thaw; to melt
• 防冻fáng dòngantifreeze
• 鸡冻jī dòngchicken jelly; (net slang) exciting (pun on 激动
• 不冻港bù dòng gǎngice-free port; open port
• 冷冻库lěng dòng kùfreezer room
• 冷冻柜lěng dòng guìfreezer
• 果子冻guǒ zi dòngjelly
• 永冻土yǒng dòng tǔpermafrost
• 渐冻症jiàn dòng zhèngamyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS
• 蛋奶冻dàn nǎi dòngcustard
• 防冻剂fáng dòng jìantifreeze agent
• 意式奶冻Yì shì nǎi dòngpanna cotta
• 永久冻土yǒng jiǔ dòng tǔpermafrost
• 渐冻人症jiàn dòng rén zhèngamyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), aka motor neurone disease (MND)
• 挨饿受冻ái è shòu dòng(idiom) to go cold and hungry

Characters built on 东

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

• 栋dòngclassifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
• 鸫dōngthrush (bird of genus Turdus)
• 胨dòngsee 蛋白胨

Characters that look like 冻

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

• 围wéito encircle; to surround; all around
• 练liànto practice; to train; to drill
• 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划
• 泊pōlake; Taiwan pr. bó
• 迭diéalternately; repeatedly
• 沐mùto bathe; to cleanse; to receive

Sounds the same

Read dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 动(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 洞cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
• 栋classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
• 峒cave; cavern
• 恫frighten
• 胴large intestine; torso
• 丼(Taiwan) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
• 垌field; farm; used in place names
• 湩milk; sound of a drum
• 侗Dong ethnic group
• 胨see 蛋白胨
• 硐variant of 洞; cave; pit