凍

See also 冻

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 冫 + phonetic 東

Han character

凍 (radical 15 冫+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈一木田 (IMDW), four-corner 3519₆)

1. freeze
2. cold, congeal
3. jelly

References

• KangXi: page 132, character 46
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1670
• Dae Jaweon: page 297, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 298, character 7
• Unihan data for U+51CD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

凍 (simplified 冻, Yale dung1, dung3)

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Japanese

Kanji

凍 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: こおる (凍る, kōru), こごえる (凍える, kogoeru)

Compounds

• 凍結
• 凍死
• 凍傷
• 凍土
• 冷凍
• 解凍
• 不凍
• 凍害
• 凍寒
• 凍原
• 凍石
• 凍豆腐
• 凍肉
• 凍瘡
• 凍餒

Related terms

• 凍てる
• 凍る
• 凍える
• 凍みる
• 凍らす

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Korean

Hanja

凍 (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

凍 (simplified 冻, pinyin dòng (dong4), Wade-Giles tung⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

凍 (đống, đông, gióng, rúng, đóng)