字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · ZhouZhou · c. 1000 BCE
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The bronze and seal stages show 仌, not 冫 itself.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
冫
冫 ice
にすい nisui
2 strokesRadical of 10 kanjiPart of 19
Your ink in 冫0% painted · 0 of 10 familiar
Origin · sourced
Radical form of 仌, in which the two blocks of ice appear compressed and stylized. Unrelated to 氵, 次, and 准.
Source: Wiktionary, 冫 (rev. 86627907), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Brrr, it's freezing! Imagine two sharp icicles hanging from the edge of a roof. When you see these two strokes on the left side of a kanji, think of winter, freezing temperatures, and the chill of the ice. It brings the power of the "cold" to every character it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates coldness, ice, freezing, the season of winter, or a state of being chilled or solidified.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 冫, with sourced origins
- 冷coolレイ · つめたい
- 凍frozenトウ · こおる
冫 + 東sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 冫 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 10 kanji