ธาร น้ำ แข็ง
“ธาร น้ำ แข็ง” (тхаан нам кхэнг) — glacier in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "stream of solid water": a glacier flows slowly, like a river of ice. The stream you saw in the brook. In a live sentence: “ธาร น้ำ แข็ง บน ภู เขา สูง หาย ไป” — The glacier on the high mountain is disappearing. Written with the characters ธ, า, ร, น, ้, ำ, แ, ข, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ธาร น้ำ แข็ง |
| Read in Latin letters | тхаан нам кхэнг |
| Translation | glacier |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "stream of solid water": a glacier flows slowly, like a river of ice. The stream you saw in the brook
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ธาร น้ำ แข็ง บน ภู เขา สูง หาย ไปтхаан нам кхэнг бон пху кхао суунг хай пайThe glacier on the high mountain is disappearing
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “glacier” in Thai?
«ธาร น้ำ แข็ง», read “тхаан нам кхэнг”. In a live sentence: “ธาร น้ำ แข็ง บน ภู เขา สูง หาย ไป” — The glacier on the high mountain is disappearing. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ธ, า, ร, น, ้, ำ, แ, ข, ง.
How is “ธาร น้ำ แข็ง” written in Latin letters?
тхаан нам кхэнг. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "stream of solid water": a glacier flows slowly, like a river of ice. The stream you saw in the brook. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.