IDENTITY
冷lěngcold
HSK 1Top 370
CORE MEANING
cold
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.coldHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 冫ice radical (bīng)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰冫令
- ice
- gives the sound lěng (historical)
USAGE
Common words
很冷hěn lěngvery cold
冷饮lěngyǐncold drink
Graded examples
今天太冷了。Jīntiān tài lěng le.HSK1
It is too cold today.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 令
LEARNING
Memory aid
Ice (冫) commanded (令) to arrive — cold.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #370
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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