Chinese Character Wiki

凝

níng

coagulate

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 疑 represents the sound.

Components
冫 meaning component

冫  Meaning component

bīng

  

ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

疑 sound component

疑  Sound component

yí

  

doubt

Evolution

凝 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
凝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
凝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凝  

níng

coagulate; congeal; freeze; to congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare

Most common words with 凝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凝

to congeal

混凝土

concrete

凝聚

to condense

凝视

to gaze at

凝固

to freeze

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ](r)əŋ (< uvular?)

nging

níng

freeze, coagulate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.9747% of movies

2330th most common character in movies

1631st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+51DD

Shuowen

“冰，水堅也。从仌，从水。凝，俗冰从疑。”


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