凉 liáng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冫 — ice
- Made of
- 冫 ice 京 capital city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
凉快
liángkuai
pleasantly cool
Characters in this word
快 kuài
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 夬 decisive, certain
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这里很凉快。 Zhè lǐ hěn liángkuai. It is very cool here.
- 晚上很凉快。 Wǎnshang hěn liángkuai. It is very cool at night.
- 屋里真凉快。 Wū lǐ zhēn liángkuai. The room is really cool.