The word "冻僵" is formed by combining the character "冻", meaning to freeze, which incorporates the ice radical "冫" for semantic meaning and "东" for phonetic indication, with the character "僵", meaning stiff, which uses the person radical "亻" to relate to the human state and "畺" for phonetic cues; together they create a compound where "冻" describes the action of freezing that results in the condition of stiffness denoted by "僵", thus conveying the meaning of being frozen stiff.