凍る
こおる · kooru · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to freeze
🧊❄️ kooru sounds like koori (氷, ice): to freeze is to turn to koori
凍 has the ice radical 冫, the two drops on its left, next to 東 (east), which gives the sound. The same radical is in 冷 (cold) and 冬 (winter). Its noun partner is 氷 koori, ice.