冰棍儿
bīnggùnr · HSK 7
ice lolly
🍦 bing-gun = ice + stick — a frozen treat on a stick
冰 (bīng) means ice, 棍 (gùn) means stick or rod, and 儿 (r) is the Beijing diminutive suffix. So literally: little ice-stick, which is exactly what a popsicle is.
冰 — ice radical 冫 + water 水
冰 means 'ice' and combines 冫 (the 'ice' radical, originally a pictograph of ice crystals) with 水 'water'. The radical 冫 is itself a simplified form of an older character for ice, so 冰 is essentially 'frozen water'. The form 氷 is a variant still used in Japanese.
棍 — wood radical 木 + 昆 (kūn)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The wood radical 木 on the left signals the meaning, since a 棍 is a stick or rod made of wood. The right side 昆 (kūn) supplies the sound, hinting at the modern reading gùn.