レイ, つめ.たい, ひ.える, ひ.や, ひ.ややか, ひ.やす, ひ.やかす, さ.める, さ.ます
cool, cold (beer, person), chill

This kanji has 7 strokes: 2 in the "water drops" radical (にすい) and 5 other strokes.

Sample compounds (39) :


  1. ひや
    cold water, cold sake

  2. ひえ
    chilling exposure
  3. やか
    ひややか
    (io) (an) cold, chilly, cool, indifferent, cold-hearted, surly, curt, composed
  4. める
    さめる
    to become cool, to wear off, to abate, to subside, to dampen, to cool down (interest), to come down (fever)
  5. たい
    つめたい
    cold (to the touch), chilly, icy, freezing, coldhearted
  6. ややか
    ひややか
    (an) cold, chilly, cool, indifferent, cold-hearted, surly, curt, composed
  7. やかす
    ひやかす
    to banter, to make fun of, to jeer at, to cool, to refrigerate
  8. やりとした
    ひやりとした
    cool, chilly, cold

  9. れいげん
    (an) grim, stern, stark, heartless

  10. ほれい
    keep cool

  11. ひえひえ
    (vs) feeling chilly, being fearful

  12. ひえひえ
    (vs) feeling chilly, being fearful

  13. れいとう
    freezing, cold storage, refrigeration

  14. ひえきる
    to become completely chilled
  15. がる
    ひえあがる
    to get completely chilled

  16. ひややっこ
    cold tofu

  17. ねびえ
    get chilled while asleep

  18. れいこう
    cold light, luminescence

  19. れいてつ
    (an) cool-headedness

  20. れいせん
    cold war

  21. れいき
    cold, chill, cold weather, cold wave, cold air

  22. れいすい
    cold water

  23. れいかん
    cold sweat

  24. ひやざけ
    cold sake

  25. ひやざけ
    cold sake

  26. れいせん
    cold mineral spring

  27. くうれい
    air cooling

  28. れいしょう
    derision, derisive laughter, scornful laugh

  29. れいば
    sneer, scoffing, abuse

  30. ひえばら
    abdominal chills, diarrhea

  31. れいぞう
    cold storage, refrigeration

  32. れいかく
    sensation of cold

  33. れいひょう
    sarcasm, sneer, jeer
  34. やす
    あたまをひやす
    to cool down one's anger

  35. ひえこむ
    to get colder, to get chilled

  36. れいぐう
    cold reception, inhospitality

  37. れいこく
    cruelty, coldheartedness, relentless, ruthless

  38. れいう
    chilly rain

  39. ひやめし
    cold rice
Kanji Character : 冷
Kuten Encoding : 4668
SJIS Encoding : 4e64
Unicode Encoding : 51b7
Old Nelson Index : 642
Radical Number : 15
Frequency Ranking : 780
Gakken Index : 607
Grade Level : 4
Halpern Index : 80
Heisig Index : 1404
Henshall Index : 604
New Nelson Index : 419
O'Neil Index : 349
Stroke Count : 7
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2b5.3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : b
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 832
SKIP Code : 1-2-5
De Roo Code : 344
Four Corner Code : 3812.7
Korean reading : raeng
Pinyin reading : leng3
Morohashi Index String : 1622
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 6.0952
Morohashi Index Number : 1622
Morohashi Page : 952
Morohashi Volume : 6
Dictionary Codes
  1. R344
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