Radical 15

冫
← 14 Radical 15 (U+2F0E) 16 →
冫 (U+51AB) "ice"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	bīng
Bopomofo:	ㄅ一ㄥ
Wade–Giles:	ping1
Cantonese Yale:	bing1
Jyutping:	bing1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	peng
Japanese Kana:	ヒョウ hyō (on'yomi) こおり kōri (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	빙 bing
Names
Chinese name(s):	兩點水/两点水 liǎngdiǎnshuǐ
Japanese name(s):	二水/にすい nisui
Hangul:	얼음 eoreum
Stroke order animation

Radical 15 or radical ice (冫部), meaning ice, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 115 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

冫 is also the 18th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character

Note that in modern Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, radical ice in some characters (e.g. 冬, 寒) is now written as two dots. Their original forms are retained in Korean hanja and some old Traditional Chinese typefaces (e.g. 冬, 寒).

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	冫
+3	冬 冭 冮 冯SC (=馮 -> 馬)
+4	冰 (ice[1]) 冱 冲SC/variant (沖 -> 水 / 衝 -> 行) 决SC/variant (=決 -> 水) 冴
+5	况SC/variant (=況 -> 水, condition[1]) 冶 冷 冸 冹 冺
+6	冻SC (=凍, to freeze[1]) 冼 冽 冾 冿 净SC (=淨 -> 水, clean)
+7	凁 凂 凃
+8	凄 凅 准 凇 凈 (=淨 -> 水) 凉SC/variant (=涼 -> 水, cool) 凊 凋 凌 凍 凎
+9	减SC/variant (=減 -> 水, reduce) 凐 凑SC/variant (=湊 -> 水, gather)
+10	凒 凓 凔 凕 凖 (=準 -> 水)
+11	凗
+12	凘
+13	凙 凚 凛SC/JP variant 凜TC variant
+14	凝 凞
+15	凟

In both Unihan database and mainland China's standard,^[2] the Simplified Chinese character 习 (=習) falls under radical second (Unihan: 乙部, China: 乛部 or its variant form 𠃌) instead of radical ice.

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
• KangXi: page 131, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1607
• Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 295, character 1

References

External links

1 stroke2 strokes3 strokes4 strokes5 strokes6 strokes7 strokes8 strokes9 strokes10 strokes11 strokes12 strokes13 strokes14 strokes15 strokes16 strokes17 strokes