What 凍 means
凍 means freezing, frozen, or intensely cold.
冫 marks ice; 東 supplies sound. The Eastern Han Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 凍 as ice; later Chinese uses include frozen liquids, cold people, and jelly.
Someone sent me 凍—what does it mean?
Check the surrounding word: 凍 can mean freezing, cold, or jelly.
In Chinese, 凍 is the traditional form corresponding to the simplified character 冻. Japanese uses 凍る (“freeze”) and 凍える (“shiver from cold”). Korean uses 냉동 (“frozen storage”), written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet. CJK fonts may show regional stroke styles.
Neutral and lexical; the language and compound set the sense.
In 果凍, read “jelly,” not “ice.”
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1Why does 凍 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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