lěng

cold

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冫 meaning component

  Meaning component

bīng

  

ice

is a component form of .

令 sound component

  Sound component

lìnglínglǐng

  

command

Evolution

冷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lěng

cold, cool; lonely; cold

 

Lěng

surname Leng

Most common words with 冷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cold

冷静

calm

寒冷

frigid

冷漠

lack of regard

冰冷

ice-cold

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 58.9460% of movies

675th most common character in movies

700th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+51B7

Shuowen

“冷,寒也。从仌。令聲。”


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