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冷 |
cold
Left: ice 冫, right: order/command 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩 was ordered.) Ice is ordered to be cold. |
准 |
to allow, to grant, in accordance with, approved, standard
Left: ice 冫, right: bird 隹 The ice bird has the permit. |
次 |
next in sequence, the second (day, time etc)
Left: ice 冫, right: lacking 欠 (showing a person 人 yawning  with mouth wide open, "lacking" behaviour) Ice is lacking, what comes next? |
冰 |
ice, to freeze
Left: ice, frozen 冫, right: water 水 Ice made from water is real ice. |
决 |
to decide, to determine, definitely
Left: ice 冫, right: 夬 (=incomplete center 央 [=image of a yoke 冂 on the shoulders of a big 大 man that is centered] Ice is already in the half of the center: We need to decide! |
净 |
clean, completely, only
Left: ice 冫, right: dispute/fight 争 (The bent person ⺈ with stick 亅 in hand  looking for dispute) (simplified from 淨 (= water 氵, hand from above 爫, broom 帚) About the use of ice it has been disputed, if you can clean with it. |
减 |
to reduce, subtract, to lower, to diminish
Left: ice 冫, right: salty 咸 (In the mouth 口 like one 一 halberd 戈 such salty) [cf.11th earth-branch 戌]) (referring to the water content) It becomes (as hard as) ice or tastes salty if it is further reduced. |
况 |
moreover, not to mention, condition, situation
Left: ice 冫, right: elder brother 兄 (A big mouth 口 on feet 儿) An ice is for my elder brother, moreover! |
寒 |
cold, poor, to tremble
From top: a roof 宀, a well 井, variant of six 六, variant of ice 冫 Under the roof, the well has six pieces of ice: It's cold! |
凉 |
cool, cold
Left: ice 冫, right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern) If there is ice on the stone lantern, it's cool. |
冲 |
to rush, clash, rinse, go straight ahead
冲 was traditionally: 沖 with water 氵that was poured into a middle 中 Put ice (traditionally: water) into the middle for rinsing or to rush forward. |
凌 |
to approach, encroach, thick ice, maltreat
Left: ice 冫, right: slowly, dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling.) You turn into ice when you dawdle during your: approach. |
弱 |
weak, feeble, young, inferior
Twice a bow 弓 with ice 冫 Bows with ice on them are too weak. |
冻 |
to freeze, to feel very cold, aspic or jelly
Left: ice 冫, right: east 东 (=東 Where the sun 日 rises behind a tree 木) (Think here to icicles at a tree, in contrast to frost 霜) It is ice, hangs at the tree the whole day long: It is frozen. |
凑 |
to gather together, pool or collect, happen by chance
Left: ice 冫, right: play music 奏 (Three 三 persons 人 perform 'heaven-like' 天 music.) On the ice, they play music and people gather together. |
凝 |
to congeal, coagulate, to gaze/stare at sb.
Left: ice 冫, right: doubt 疑 (Both persons 匕, マ with the arrow 矢 are correct 正 in their doubts.) Ice is without doubt congealed. |
凄 |
sad, mournful, ice-cold frigid, dismal, grim, bleak
Left: ice 冫, right: wife 妻 (The ten 十-handed  woman 女 is my [hardworking] wife.) My ice-cold wife makes me: sad. |
搀 |
to assist by the arm, to support, sustain
Left hand 扌, right: avoid, escape 免 (an escaping rabbit 兔: long ears ⺈, big eyes 罒, legs 儿), two strokes 丶丶but without tail 丶) The hand that leads you like a rabbit over the ice 冫: assists you by an arm. |
冶 |
metallurgy, to smelt, cast, to mould
Left: ice 冫, which stands for "not-melted", right: platform, stand 台 (nose 厶 over the mouth 口) "Ice" (= sth. not melted) is the platform (= starting point) for smelting in metallurgy. |
冯 |
to gallop, to assist, to attack
Left: ice 冫 (here: two feet of the horse), right: horse 马/馬 (with mane 三, four legs 灬 und tail ㄅ) Two feet of the horse (are touching the earth) when: galloping. |
凛 |
freezing, shiver with cold or fear, strict, afraid, stern
Left: ice 冫, right: report, petition 禀 (It is covered 亠 (= confidential) and at my return 回 I show 示: the report.) At the ice-cold report I shivered of fear. |
溺 |
to drown, to indulge, addicted to, to spoil (a child)
Left: water 氵, right: weak 弱 (Two bows 弓 with ice 冫are too weak.) If you are in the water and get weak, you will drown. |
凋 |
withered
Left: ice 冫, right: circumference 周 (A framed 冂 luck 吉, sets its circumference) Ice has a circumference, that is: withered. |
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