Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N2

1450 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: icicle, ice, hail, freeze, congeal

Kunyomi: こおり こお.る

Onyomi: ヒョウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: みず

Meaning: water

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

山(ひょうざん)   iceberg

河(ひょうが)   glacier

河期(ひょうがき)   glacial period

点下(ひょうてんか)   below freezing

(じゅひょう)   frost covered trees

(せいひょう)   ice making

(りゅうひょう)   drift ice, ice floe

(こおり)   ice

枕(こおりまくら)   ice pillow

かき(かきごおり)   snow cone, flavored ice

雨(ひさめ)   hail, freezing rain

Onyomi Examples

ツララ icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice

ヒョウザン iceberg

カイヒョウ a thaw

カイヒョウ sea ice

Kunyomi Examples

こおり ice, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)

こおりみず ice water, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)

人造 じんぞうこおり artificial ice

せっぴょう snow and ice, snow ice, frozen snow

ice, hail

つらら icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice

薄ら うすらひ thin ice

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