冰心

Bīngxīn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Bing Xin (1900-1999), pen name of Xie Wanying, beloved modern Chinese poet, essayist and children's writer

Examples

HSK 7-9
Bīngxīn de 《 Jì Xiǎo dúzhě 》 shì jǐ dài háizi de qǐméng dúwù.
Bing Xin's 'Letters to Young Readers' has been required reading for generations of children.
HSK 7-9
Tā de sǎnwén wēnróu qīngxīn, chōngmǎn mǔ'ài.
Her essays are tender and fresh, full of maternal love.

Tips

culture
冰心 ('ice heart') is a pen name drawn from the Tang poet 王昌龄's line 一片冰心在玉壶 ('a piece of ice-pure heart in a jade vase'). Her signature themes are (love) - for mother, nature and children. She lived through nearly the entire 20th century, dying at age 99.
memory
(ice) + (heart) - literally 'ice heart', but in the Tang poem the image means crystalline purity, not coldness.

Stroke Order

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xīn