冷
JLPT HSK 1

lěng
Left: ice 冫, right: order/command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩 was ordered.)
Ice is ordered to be cold.

	准
JLPT HSK 2

zhǔn
Left: ice 冫, right: bird 隹
(Many birds have to leave northern Europe for the south in winter because of the cold. But one is allowed to stay:) The ice-bird has that permission.

	次
JLPT HSK 2

cì
Left: ice 冫, right: lacking 欠 (showing a person 人 yawning with mouth wide open, "lacking" good manners)
Ice is lacking, what comes next?

	冰
JLPT HSK 3

bīng
Left: ice, frozen 冫, right: water 水
Ice made from water is real ice.

	决
JLPT HSK 3

jué
Left: ice 冫, right: 夬 (a person 人 with a backpack コ)
(It is already melting:) Because of the ice in the backpack, the person has to make a decision!

	净
JLPT HSK 3

jìng
Left: ice 冫, right: dispute/fight 争 (The bent person ⺈ with stick 亅 in hand looking for dispute) (simplified from 淨 (= water 氵, hand from above 爫, broom 帚)
About the use of ice it has been disputed, if you can clean with it. - Or: Using this "water" 冫=氵the bent person (is scrubbing) with the broom 亅 in the hand 彐 when cleaning.

	冬
JLPT HSK 3

dōng
Top: sitting cross-legged or upturned foot 夂, below: ice 冫 (夂 is a picture of sb. sitting cross-legged, but often also used as: upturned foot)
With an upturned foot on the ice: It is winter.

	减
JLPT HSK 4

jiǎn
Left: ice 冫, right: salty 咸 (The taste is for the person 人 (= ノ & 一) in the mouth 口 like a halberd 戈 such salty) [cf.11th earth-branch 戌])
(Referring water content when boiling i.e. sea water:) It becomes (as hard as) ice and tastes salty if it is further reduced.

	况
JLPT HSK 4

kuàng
Left: ice 冫, right: elder brother 兄 (A big mouth 口 on feet 儿)
An ice is for my elder brother, moreover!

	寒
JLPT HSK 4

hán
From top: a roof 宀, a well 井, variant of six 六, variant of ice 冫
Under the roof, the well has six pieces of ice: It's cold!

	凉
JLPT HSK 4

liáng
Left: ice 冫, right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern)
If there is ice on the stone lantern, it's cool.

	冲
JLPT HSK 5

chōng, chòng
冲 was traditionally: 沖 with water 氵that was poured into a middle 中
Put ice (traditionally: water) into the middle for rinsing or to rush forward.

	凌
JLPT HSK 5

líng
Left: ice 冫, right: slowly, dawdle 夌 (Who walks over the earth 土 with legs 儿 that are crossed 夂, is dawdling.)
You turn into ice when you dawdle during your: approach.

	弱
JLPT HSK 5

ruò
Twice a bow 弓 with ice 冫
Bows with ice on them are too weak.

	冻
JLPT HSK 5

dòng
Left: ice 冫, right: east 东/東 (Where the sun 日 rises behind a tree 木)
(Think here to icicles at a tree, in contrast to frost 霜) The ice 冫hangs at the tree 木 for the whole day 日 because it is frozen.

	凑
JLPT HSK 6

còu
Left: ice 冫, right: play music 奏 (Three 三 persons 人 perform 'heaven-like' 天 music.)
On the ice, they play music and people gather together.

	凝
JLPT HSK 6

níng
Left: ice 冫, right: doubt 疑 (Both persons 匕, マ with the arrow 矢 are correct 正 in their doubts.)
Ice is without doubt congealed.

	凄
JLPT HSK 6

qī
Left: ice 冫, right: wife 妻 (The ten 十-handed woman 女 is my [hardworking] wife.)
My ice-cold wife makes me: sad.

	搀
JLPT HSK 6

chān
Left hand 扌, right: avoid, escape 免 (an escaping rabbit 兔: long ears ⺈, big eyes 罒, legs 儿), two strokes 丶丶but without tail 丶)
The hand that leads you like a rabbit over the ice 冫: assists you by an arm.

	冶
JLPT no HSK

yě
Left: ice 冫, which stands for "not-melted", right: platform, stand 台 (nose 厶 over the mouth 口)
"Ice" (= sth. not melted) is the platform (= starting point) for smelting in metallurgy.

	冯
JLPT no HSK

féng, píng
Left: ice 冫 (here: two feet of the horse), right: horse 马/馬 (with mane 三, four legs 灬 und tail ㄅ)
Two feet of the horse (are touching the earth) when: galloping.

	凛
JLPT no HSK

lǐn
Left: ice 冫, right: report, petition 禀 (It is covered 亠 (= confidential) and at my return 回 I show 示: the report.)
At the ice-cold report I shivered of fear.

	溺
JLPT no HSK

nì, niào
Left: water 氵, right: weak 弱 (Two bows 弓 with ice 冫are too weak.)
If you are in the water and get weak, you will drown.

	凋
JLPT no HSK

diāo
Left: ice 冫, right: circumference 周 (A framed 冂 luck 吉, sets its circumference)
Ice has a circumference, that is: withered.