音読み: レイ
訓読み: つめたい・ひえる・ひやす・さめる・さます
画数: 7 strokes
部首: 冫（にすい）
Meaning
Cold, chill, cool down — This kanji represents both literal coldness (as in temperature) and metaphorical coldness (like a cold attitude or silence).
- 冷たい — cold (to the touch)
- 冷える — to become cold
- 冷やす — to cool, to chill
- 冷房 — air conditioning
- 冷静 — calm, composed
冷 combines the “ice” radical 冫with the phonetic part 令. It originally referred to the act of chilling something with ice. Today, it also implies emotional coldness or indifference.
冷たい水をください。
Please give me cold water.
彼は 冷静に 対応した。
He responded calmly.
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