冷
lěngTraditional: 冷
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。
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.
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Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(5)Mandarin Adjectives as Stative Verbs: Why 'I Am Cold' Is 我冷, Not 我是冷
Mandarin Comparatives: 比, 比较, 最, 跟…一样 and How to Say 'More', 'Most', 'Same As'
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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