冷 — Chinese character
冷
lěng
cold, cool; lonely
- Pinyin
- lěng
- Radical
- 15 ⼎ (Ice)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 冫 令
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ice; meaning component 冫; sound component 令
- Japanese
- 冷 as a kanji
Common words with 冷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冷静 (冷靜) | lěng jìng | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet |
| 冷战 (冷戰) | lěng zhàn | cold war; (fig.) strained relationship |
| 冷战 (冷戰) | lěng zhan | (coll.) shiver; shudder |
| 寒冷 | hán lěng | cold (climate); frigid |
| 冷漠 | lěng mò | cold and detached towards sb; lack of regard |
| 冷却 (冷卻) | lěng què | (lit. and fig.) to cool |
| 冷酷 | lěng kù | unfeeling; callous |
| 冰冷 | bīng lěng | ice-cold |
| 冷冻 (冷凍) | lěng dòng | to freeze (food etc); (of weather) freezing |
| 冷淡 | lěng dàn | cold; indifferent |
| 冷气 (冷氣) | lěng qì | cold air; air conditioning |
| 冷水 | lěng shuǐ | cold water; unboiled water |
English words written with 冷
冷 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.