冰箱 is a subset of 雪櫃。 雪櫃: 雪 refers to snow , 櫃 refers to shelf 冰箱: 冰 refers to ice/frozen, 箱 refers to box Refrigerator in German language: Kühlschrank Kühl: cool schrank: cupboard In this sense, Cantonese language is similar to German in that the word /phrase actually is inherently descriptive, unlike the word 'refrigerator. Once you realize how the Cantonese language constructs words, then it will be rather easy to pick up this language!!!!