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Chinese symbol for “icebreaker”

破冰船
pò bīng chuán
icebreaker

The closest CC-CEDICT match for icebreaker is 破冰船 (pò bīng chuán), defined as: icebreaker.

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Characters and stroke order

破 pò
to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy
radical 112 ⽯ · 10 strokes
冰 bīng
ice; ice-cold
radical 15 ⼎ · 6 strokes
船 chuán
ship, boat, vessel
radical 137 ⾈ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “icebreaker”

WordPinyinMeaning
破冰舰 (破冰艦)pò bīng jiànicebreaker

Related words

Other words that share a character with 破冰船.

WordPinyinMeaning
破坏 (破壞)pò huàidestruction; damage
突破tū pòto break through; to make a breakthrough
打破dǎ pòto break; to smash
破产 (破產)pò chǎnto go bankrupt; to become impoverished
破解pò jiěto break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain
破裂pò lièto burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down
冰箱bīng xiāngrefrigerator; (old) icebox
冰淇淋bīng qí línice cream
船只 (船隻)chuán zhīship; boat

See also: Japanese symbol for “icebreaker”.

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.