Reading
냉 (naeng) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 냉 (naeng)
cold, cool; lonely
찰 랭chal raeng
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 찰 (chal) is the Korean for cold, and 랭 (raeng) is the reading. Say 찰 랭 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- ⼎ 15
- Beyond radical
- 5
- Mandarin
- lěng
- Japanese on
- rei
- Japanese kun
- hieru
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 랭, but South Korean spelling writes 냉 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
냉
冷氣 냉기 naenggi冷冷 냉냉 naengnaeng冷房 냉방 naengbang
Elsewhere in the word
랭
No medial example among the words listed below.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.