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涼

liáng, liàng

cool

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

京 sound component

京  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

涼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
涼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凉 (涼) 

liáng

cool, cold; disheartened; cool; cold

凉 (涼) 

Liáng

the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)

凉 (涼) 

liàng

to let sth cool down

Most common words with 涼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凉

cool

凉快

nice and cold

凄凉

mournful

冰凉

ice-cold

清凉

cool

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.raŋ

ljang

liáng

cold


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.7892% of movies

1923rd most common character in movies

1581st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

凉

Unicode

U+6DBC

Shuowen

“涼，薄也。从水，京聲。”


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