冷

冷 U+51B7, 冷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51B7 ← 冶 [U+51B6] CJK Unified Ideographs 冸 → [U+51B8]

冷 U+F92E, 冷 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F92E ← 來 [U+F92D] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 勞 → [U+F92F]

Stroke order

Traditional	冷
Simplified	冷
Japanese	冷
Korean	冷

冷 (Kangxi radical 15, 冫+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈一人戈戈 (IMOII), four-corner 3812₇, composition ⿰冫令)

• 唥 𣇝 𪞠 𪞧 𪲜 𪨺
• 𫭶 𫥕 𫥖 𫥘 𫥜 𭂤 𰄇

• 泠

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 132, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1622
• Dae Jaweon: page 295, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 296, character 5
• Unihan data for U+51B7

• Unihan data for U+F92E

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ) : semantic 冫 (“ice”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs) – cold as ice.

trad.		冷
simp. #		冷

A vocalic variant of 涼 (OC *ɡ·raŋ, “chilly; cold”) (Schuessler, 2007).

冷

1. cold; cool

   寒冷  ―  hánlěng  ―  cold

   冷水  ―  lěngshuǐ  ―  cold water

2. (dialectal) to cool; to cool down; to become cold
3. cold; desolate; quiet
4. cold; indifferent
5. to dishearten
6. idle
7. disdainful; sarcastic
8. neglected; not popular

   冷門／冷门  ―  lěngmén  ―  unpopular

9. unfamiliar; rare

   冷僻  ―  lěngpì  ―  rare

10. corny; lame
11. sudden; unexpected
12. a surname

• (cold):

冷

1. Only used in 冷凙／冷𪞝.

冷

1. Only used in 㓑冷.

trad.		冷
simp. #		冷
alternative forms		唥 𦀬 Guangxi

Borrowed from French laine (“wool”).

冷

1. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, Pinghua, Leizhou Min, Hainanese) woollen yarn (Classifier: 條／条 c; 嚿 c)

trad.		冷
simp. #		冷
alternative forms		唥

Borrowed from Teochew 儂／侬 (nang⁵, “person”).

冷

1. (Cantonese, slang, humorous) guy; person (Classifier: 條／条 c)
2. (Cantonese) Used in words related to Teochew people.

   冷話／冷话 [Cantonese]  ―  laang^5-1 waa^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  Teochew language

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. cool
2. cold (beer, person)
3. chill

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひや (hiya, 冷や, Jōyō)、さめる (sameru, 冷める, Jōyō)、さます (samasu, 冷ます, Jōyō)、つめたい (tsumetai, 冷たい, Jōyō)、ひえる (hieru, 冷える, Jōyō)^{←ひえる (fieru, ひえる, historical)←ひ𛀁る (fyeru, ひ𛀁る, ancient)}、ひやかす (hiyakasu, 冷やかす, Jōyō)、ひやす (hiyasu, 冷やす, Jōyō)、ひやっこい (hiyakkoi, 冷っこい)、しゃっこい (shakkoi, 冷っこい)

Kanji in this term
冷
ひや Grade: 4
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 冷 – see the following entry.

【ひや】 [noun] cold drinking water Alternative spelling 冷や

(This term, 冷, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

冷 (eumhun 찰 랭 (chal raeng), word-initial (South Korea) 찰 냉 (chal naeng))

1. hanja form^? of 랭/냉 (“cold”)

冷: Hán Việt readings: lãnh^[1]
冷: Nôm readings: linh^[2], liểng^[2], lành^[3], lãnh^[2], lênh^[2], lạnh^[4], lảnh^[3], rãnh^[2], rảnh^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of lãnh (“cold; neglected”).
2. chữ Hán form of lạnh (“cold”).

• Lãnh Cung (冷宮, “Cold Palace”)
• đông lạnh (凍冷, “frozen”)