bīng — ice; to chill sth

A way to remember it

A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.

Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.

Water, 水, with a mark for the cracks that open when it freezes. In its squeezed form 冫 the ice radical still chills 冷, 冻 and 凉.