冰 bīng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 冫 — ice
- Made of
- 冫 ice 水 water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
冰山一角
bīngshānyìjiǎo
tip of the iceberg
Characters in this word
山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
角 jiǎo
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 角 — angle, corner
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 这份内部报告披露的问题只是冰山一角，真正的亏空可能还没有浮出水面。 Zhè fèn nèibù bàogào pīlù de wèntí zhǐ shì bīngshān yìjiǎo, zhēnzhèng de kuīkōng kěnéng hái méi yǒu fú chū shuǐmiàn. The problems disclosed in this internal report are only the tip of the iceberg; the real deficit may not yet have surfaced.
- 你看到的只是冰山一角，背后还有很多故事。 Nǐ kàndào de zhǐ shì bīngshān yìjiǎo, bèihòu hái yǒu hěn duō gùshi. What you see is only the tip of the iceberg; there are many more stories behind it.
- 这次出现的小问题其实只是冰山一角。 Zhè cì chūxiàn de xiǎo wèntí qíshí zhǐ shì bīngshān yìjiǎo. The small problem this time is actually only the tip of the iceberg.
Related words
- 冰 bīng ice
- 冰箱 bīngxiāng refrigerator
- 冰雪 bīngxuě ice and snow
- 滑冰 huábīng to skate
- 冰雹 bīngbáo hail; hailstone
- 冰棍儿 bīnggùnr ice lolly; popsicle
- 冰天雪地 bīngtiānxuědì a world of ice and snow; freezing conditions
- 山 shān mountain, hill
- 爬山 páshān to climb mountains; to hike
- 登山 dēngshān to climb a mountain
- 山区 shānqū mountain area
- 人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi a sea of people