Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1284 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: frozen, congeal, refrigerate

Kunyomi: こお.る こご.える こご.る い.てる し.みる

Onyomi: トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にすい

Meaning: ice

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

傷(とうしょう)   frostbite

庫(れいとうこ)   freezer

結する(とうけつする)   freeze

死する(とうしする)   freeze to death

する(かいとうする)   thaw

る(こおる)   freeze [v.i.]

える(こごえる)   be numb with cold [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

トウケツ freezing (e.g. water), freezing (prices, wages, assets, etc.), moratorium, suspension (e.g. investment)

トウシ death from cold, freezing to death

カイトウ thawing, defrosting, decompression (of data), extraction, unpacking, unzipping

自動解 ジドウカイトウ self-extracting (file)

Kunyomi Examples

こおる to freeze, to be frozen over, to congeal

える こごえる to freeze (of one's body), to be frozen, to become numb (with cold), to be chilled

てる いてる to freeze, to freeze over

みる しみる to freeze, to be frozen over, to congeal