冷 lěng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 冫 — ice
- Made of
- 冫 ice 令 command, decree, order
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
冷气
lěngqì
air conditioning; cold air
Characters in this word
气 qì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 气 — air, gas
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 商场冷气开得太足，节能标语反而显得有些讽刺。 Shāngchǎng lěngqì kāi de tài zú, jiénéng biāoyǔ fǎn'ér xiǎnde yǒuxiē fěngcì. The shopping centre has the air conditioning turned up so high that its energy-saving slogan seems rather ironic.
- 房间里冷气太足了，我得穿件外套。 Fángjiān lǐ lěngqì tài zú le, wǒ děi chuān jiàn wàitào. The air conditioning in the room is too strong; I need to put on a jacket.
- 夏天最舒服的事就是回家吹着冷气吃西瓜。 Xiàtiān zuì shūfu de shì jiù shì huí jiā chuī zhe lěngqì chī xīguā. The nicest thing about summer is going home to eat watermelon in the cool air-conditioning.
Related words
- 冷 lěng cold
- 寒冷 hánlěng cold
- 冷静 lěngjìng calm
- 忽冷忽热 hūlěnghūrè changeable; hot and cold
- 冷淡 lěngdàn cold; indifferent; to treat coldly
- 冷冻 lěngdòng to freeze; frozen
- 冷酷 lěngkù cold-hearted; ruthless
- 冷落 lěngluò desolate; to neglect; to cold-shoulder
- 冷门 lěngmén unpopular; obscure; less favoured
- 冷漠 lěngmò indifferent; apathetic
- 冷却 lěngquè to cool; to cool down
- 冷战 lěngzhàn cold war; cold conflict