dòng

freeze

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冫 meaning component

  Meaning component

bīng

  

ice

is a component form of .

東 sound component

  Sound component

dōng

  

east

Evolution

凍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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dòng

freeze; cold, congeal; jelly; to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly

Most common words with 凍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to freeze

冷冻

to freeze

冻结

to freeze (water etc)

冻死

to freeze to death

果冻

gelatin dessert

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤoŋ-s

tuwngH

dòng

freeze


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.5763% of movies

1649th most common character in movies

2127th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+51CD

Shuowen

“凍,仌也。从仌,東聲。”


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