(lěng) - cold, cool in Mandarin

lěng

Traditional: 冷

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Translation

cold, cool

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound with the ice radical 冫on the left indicating cold and 令 (lìng) supplying the sound. It describes low temperature and, figuratively, coldness of manner.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 冫(ice) + 令 (lìng, phonetic)

Stroke order

冷

Examples

。

It is very cold today.

，。

Wear more, it is cold outside.

。

The soup has gone cold.

。

His attitude towards me is very cold.

冬dōng。

Winters in the north are extremely cold.

冷 (lěng) means cold or cool. It applies to weather, objects and a person's manner.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 冷.

冷静lěng jìngcalm, cool-headed

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This word is part of lesson 25.