冰风暴 (bīng fēng bào) — icy storm (storm with freezing rain or sleet); hailstorm

Definition

noun
icy storm (storm with freezing rain or sleet)hailstorm
Measure word · 场

Examples

  • 冰风暴，。
    Zuó tiān wǎn shàng de bīng fēng bào hěn dà, bǎ shù dōu chuī dǎo le.
    Last night's icy storm was very strong and blew down trees.
  • 冰风暴，。
    Tiān qì yù bào shuō jīn tiān xià wǔ huì yǒu bīng fēng bào, dà jiā xiǎo xīn.
    The weather forecast says there will be a hailstorm this afternoon, everyone be careful.
  • 冰风暴。
    Zhè chǎng bīng fēng bào dài lái le bīng báo hé qiáng fēng.
    This hailstorm brought hail and strong winds.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

冰bīngice
风暴storm
风fēngwind暴bàostorm
联合Side by side

冰 denotes ice, 风 denotes wind, and 暴 denotes storm, giving an icy storm.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
水水shuǐ
Sound part声符shēngfú
冫
仌bīng冰bīng
Same sound today

冰 adds 水 (water) to 冫, the short form of 仌; 冫 gives the sound, and 水 shows the meaning.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The earliest form paired 虎 and 戈, a tiger and a weapon. The later 暴 came from a picture of hands drying something in the sun.

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