Chinese symbol for “glacier”
冰川
bīng chuān
glacier
The closest CC-CEDICT match for glacier is 冰川 (bīng chuān), defined as: glacier.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “glacier”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冰川.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冰箱 | bīng xiāng | refrigerator; (old) icebox |
| 冰淇淋 | bīng qí lín | ice cream |
| 冰雪 | bīng xuě | ice and snow |
| 冰冷 | bīng lěng | ice-cold |
| 冰块 (冰塊) | bīng kuài | ice cube; ice chunk |
| 河川 | hé chuān | rivers |
| 山川 | shān chuān | mountains and rivers; landscape |
| 平川 | píng chuān | an expanse of flat land |
See also: Japanese symbol for “glacier”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.