dòng
congelé; gelée
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冬天到了，天气很冷，河水都冻住了。
Dōngtiān dàole, tiānqì hěn lěng, héshuǐ dōu dòngzhùle.
Winter has come, the weather is very cold, and the river water has frozen.
我把肉放进冰箱里冻一下。
Wǒ bǎ ròu fàngjìn bīngxiāng lǐ dòng yīxià.
I put the meat in the refrigerator to freeze it for a while.
冻疮很疼，要及时治疗。
Dòngchuāng hěn téng, yào jíshí zhìliáo.
Frostbite is very painful and should be treated promptly.
冰 (bīng)
ice
冷 (lěng)
cold
热 (rè)
hot
暖 (nuǎn)
warm
The Chinese character 冻 (dòng) for "freeze" is composed of two parts: the radical 冰 (bīng) for "ice" on the left, and the phonetic component 東 (dōng) on the right. The radical 冰 indicates the semantic meaning of the character, while the phonetic component 東 provides a hint to its pronunciation.The original form of 冻 was 冫, which is a pictograph of icicles. In ancient times, people used to write 冫 to represent ice. Later, the character was simplified to 冰, which is still used today.The phonetic component 東 (dōng) is a rebus. It is a combination of the character 日 (rì) for "sun" and the character 東 (dōng) for "east". The sun rises in the east, so 東 (dōng) is used to represent the sound "dōng".The character 冻 (dòng) is a combination of the radical 冰 (bīng) and the phonetic component 東 (dōng). It means "freeze" and is pronounced "dòng".
