漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
涼: refreshing, nice and cool
JLPT N211 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 京 is drawn in
11 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 涼風りょうふうcool breeze, refreshing breeze
- 納涼のうりょうcool of the summer evening
- 清涼飲料水せいりょういんりょうすいsoft drink
- 清涼せいりょうcool; refreshing
すずしいsuzushii · kun'yomi · on its own
- 涼しいすずしいcool
すずむsuzumu · kun'yomi
- 涼むすずむcool oneself, cool off
Also read すずやか, うすい, ひやす, まことに, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
京
Also built on capital (京)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side涼 refreshing · 氵
vs椋 type of deciduous tree · 木In ChineseSimplified 凉 · traditional, as in Japanese · liáng
Japan keeps the traditional form 涼; mainland China simplifies it to 凉.
- Simplified
- 凉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 涼 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin liáng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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