Chinese Character Wiki
凉

liáng, liàng

cool

Original meaning: 

light alcohol, dilute wine

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 is a simplification of 氵 (water), based on the original meaning "light alcohol, dilute wine". 京 represents the sound. Simplified form of 涼.

Components
冫 meaning,simplified component

冫  Meaning Simplified component

bīng

  

ice

氵 was simplified to 冫

京 sound component

京  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

凉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
凉 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
凉 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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 凉
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

HSK level 2

Appears in 11.7892% of movies

1923rd most common character in movies

1581st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

涼

Unicode

U+51C9


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