冰心

Bīngxīn
popculture

Meanings

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

Examples

Bīngxīn de《Jì Xiǎodúzhě》shì jǐ dài háizi de qǐméng dúwù.
Bing Xin's 'Letters to Young Readers' has been required reading for generations of children.
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 's line 冰心 ('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

bīng
xīn