冰 bīng ice
Made up of [冫 bīng ice radical 15, 水 shuǐ water radical 85, 丶 zhǔ dot radical 3]Made with 6 strokes.
Originally did not include ice radical on the left but this was tooo easily confued with water (with a dot)
Related characters
Also uses 冫 bīng component: 次 cì (next in sequence) 冷 lěng (cold) ; 凉 liáng (cool) ; 习 xí (to practice)
Also uses 水 shuǐ component: 求 qiú (to seek) 泉 quán (spring) ; 永 yǒng (perpetual)
Also uses 丶 zhǔ component: 白 bái (bright) 半 bàn (half) ; 弟 dì (younger brother) ; 兑 duì (to cash) ; 丽 lì (beautiful) ; 良 liáng (good) ; 令 lìng (to order) ; 铺 pù (store) ; 勺 sháo (spoon) ; 术 shù (method) ; 苏 sū (revive) ; 太 tài (too) ; 往 wǎng (towards) ; 为 wèi (do) ; 乌 wū (crow) ; 义 yì (justice) ; 尤 yóu (outstanding) ; 玉 yù (jade) ; 州 zhōu (prefecture) ; 住 zhù (to live) ; 主 zhǔ (owner) ; 自 zì (from)
Sounds same
兵 bīng (soldiers)Different tone
丙 bǐng (third in order) ; 俩 bǐng (both)This character is also represented as a radical in the form: 冫 bīng
Pronunciation
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Proverbs
冰冻三尺,非一日之寒 bīng dòng sān chǐ, fēi yí rì zhī hán It takes time to achieve satisfactory results冰天雪地 bīng tiān xuě dì Encountering adverse conditions
夏虫疑冰 xià chóng yí bīng An ignorant person doesn't understand the wider truth