冷
Tap the pinyin to hear it
cold
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
cold · Heisig RSH #1114
ice + 令 orders
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 冷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冷水江市 | Lengshuijiang, a county-level city in Loudi City 婁底市|娄底市[Lou2 di3 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 大冷天 | freezing cold day | |
| 冷气机 | air conditioner | |
| 冷血动物 | cold-blooded animal; fig. cold-hearted person | |
| 冷水江 | see 冷水江市[Leng3 shui3 jiang1 Shi4] | |
| 冷空气 | (meteorology) cold air mass | |
| 生冷字 | obscure or archaic character | |
| 冷水机组 | chiller | |
| 打冷战 | to shiver; to shudder | |
| 冷语冰人 | to offend people with unkind remarks (idiom) | |
| 冷水 | cold water; unboiled water; fig. not yet ready (of plans) | |
| 水冷 | to water-cool | |
| 生冷 | (of food) raw or cold | |
| 冷天 | cold day | |
| 天冷 | it's cold (weather) | |
| 冷热病 | malaria | |
| 心灰意冷 | discouraged; downhearted | |
| 冷气 | cold air; air conditioning | |
| 高冷 | reserved; aloof; (geography) (of a location) elevated and cold | |
| 发冷 | to feel a chill (as an emotional response); to feel cold (as a clinical symptom) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 令 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 邻 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 拎 | to lift, to haul, to take | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers | |
| 聆 | to hear, to listen |