冷

音読おんよみ: レイ

訓読くんよみ: つめたい・ひえる・ひやす・さめる・さます

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: にすい(冫)

Meaning

Cold / Chill / Cool Down

Conjugation
Tap for 冷える (get cold) Tap for 冷める (cool down)
  • つめたい — cold (to the touch)
  • える — to become cold
  • やす — to cool; to chill
  • める — to cool down; to go lukewarm
  • ます — to let cool
  • 冷房れいぼう — air conditioning

冷 combines the “ice” radical 冫 with the phonetic 令, originally evoking chilling with ice. It extends to emotional coolness in compounds like 冷静.

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