冷
lěng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Cold — of weather, places, food and drink, or how a person feels. 今天很冷 'it is cold today'; 我很冷 'I am cold'; 冷水 'cold water'. Its opposite is 热 'hot'.
Lạnh, rét: nói về thời tiết, đồ vật, đồ ăn thức uống hay cảm giác của người. 今天很冷 (hôm nay trời rất lạnh); 我很冷 (tôi lạnh quá); 冷水 (nước lạnh). Trái nghĩa là 热 (nóng).
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 冷 = lãnh · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “冷” mean?
Cold — of weather, places, food and drink, or how a person feels. 今天很冷 'it is cold today'; 我很冷 'I am cold'; 冷水 'cold water'. Its opposite is 热 'hot'.
Is “冷” formal or informal?
冷 is generally neutral.