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The kanji 冷: meaning, readings and stroke order

冷

Meaning
cold, cool down
On reading
レイ rei
Kun reading
つめ(たい) tsumetai、ひ(える) hieru、ひ(や) hiya、ひ(やす) hiyasu、ひ(やかす) hiyakasu、さ(める) sameru、さ(ます) samasu
Strokes
7
Radical
冫 ice
Level
Level 4 · grade 4

Stroke order

Stroke order of 冷, 7 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
lạnh, nguội (lãnh)
Japanese
つめたい。ひえる。さめる。
Korean
차갑다, 식다 (냉·랭)
Chinese
冷、变凉

Readings, words and example sentences

レイ rei · on reading · less common

つめ(たい) tsumetai · kun reading

ひ(える) hieru · kun reading

ひ(や) hiya · kun reading · less common

ひ(やす) hiyasu · kun reading

ひ(やかす) hiyakasu · kun reading · less common

さ(める) sameru · kun reading

さ(ます) samasu · kun reading

Practise writing 冷 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 冷 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 4 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.