冷 · lěng
cold, cool; lonely
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
cold, cool; lonely
- Mandarin
- lěng
- Cantonese
- laang5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 冷 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
レイ リョウ つめたい ひえる ひや ひやす ひやかす さめる さます ひえ すずしいKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 냉
- KS X 1001 (0)
- 랭
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+51B7
- Radical
- 冫 · 15
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 冷
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 令 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 令聲
Line 1613 · ⿰冫令 · 令聲 · source reference 4210100
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- leng · 郎丁 反切 · #939
- Middle Chinese
- laengX · 魯打 反切 · #1872
- Middle Chinese
- lengX · 力鼎 反切 · #1915
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7484 · leng = 梗開四平青來 · laengX = 梗開二上庚來 · lengX = 梗開四上青來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lěng
- kCantonese
- laang5
- kDefinition
- cold, cool; lonely
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 15.5
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:838
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- lěng,líng,lǐng 10296.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- lěng 0688.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- lěng 214.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- lěng(453)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- lěng粵laang5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 郎丁 魯打 力鼎
- Kangxi positions
- 0132.010
- Guangyun positions
- 196.41 317.19 320.44
- GSR references
- 0823h
- Cangjie
- IMOII
- Four-corner
- 3812.7