HSK 3 · Common Objects

冰箱 bīngxiāng “refrigerator” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 冰箱 means

  1. refrigerator

How to say 冰箱

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale冰bīng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale箱xiāng1st tone, high and level

冰箱 in a sentence

  1. 冰箱里什么也没有了。

    Bīngxiāng lǐ shénme yě méiyǒu le.

    There’s nothing left in the fridge.

    Sentence #12686326 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 把橙子从冰箱里拿出来。

    Bǎ chéngzi cóng bīngxiāng lǐ ná chūlai.

    Take the oranges out of the fridge.

    Sentence #839788 from Tatoeba

  3. 巧克力不放在冰箱里的话会融化的。

    Qiǎokèlì bú fàng zài bīngxiāng lǐ dehuà huì rónghuà de.

    Chocolate will melt if you don’t keep it in the fridge.

    Sentence #2002961 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 冰箱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 冰 (bīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
冰bīngice
  • 冫ice · bīng
  • 水water · shuǐ

Memory aidIce 冫 beside water 水: ice.

The character 箱 (xiāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
箱xiāngbox
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 相mutual · xiāngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 相 (xiāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāng.

How to write 冰箱

冰 6 strokes · 箱 15 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

冰箱 (bīngxiāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 冰箱 (bīngxiāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 冰箱

Words with 冰

冰bīng · ice冰激凌bīngjīlíng · ice cream冰雹bīngbáo · hail

Words with 箱

箱子xiāngzi · box邮箱yóuxiāng · email inbox行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk

More words: Everyday Things

船chuán · a boat护照hùzhào · passport辆liàng · mw for vehicles自行车zìxíngchē · bike层céng · mw for layers灯dēng · lamp电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email段duàn · paragraph

FAQs

冰箱 (bīngxiāng) means “refrigerator”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it bīngxiāng: bīng with a 1st tone, then xiāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 冰箱 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bingxiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冰箱 from the suggestions. Typing bingxiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冰箱 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.