涼

涼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口火 (EYRF), four-corner 3019₆, composition ⿰氵京)

• 𡰏

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 628, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17606
• Dae Jaweon: page 1030, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1657, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6DBC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 京 (OC *kraŋ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ (“cold; freeze”). Cognate with 霜 (OC *sraŋ, “frost”), Tibetan གྲང་ (grang, “cold”). According to Schuessler (2007), this etymon seems to have a wider distribution: Compare Austroasiatic Kharia raŋga (“cold; freeze”), Khmer រងា (rɔngiə, “cold”).

A derivative is probably 凔 (OC *sʰaːŋ, “cold”). A vocalic variant is 冷 (OC *raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ, “cold”).

涼

1. cool; cold
2. discouraged; disheartened
3. forlorn
4. (traditional Chinese medicine) heat-preventing
5. (slang, neologism) be done for; be finished or destroyed; gone for the dogs; curtains (for someone)

   都散了吧，Flash平臺已涼！ [MSC, trad.]
   都散了吧，Flash平台已凉！ [MSC, simp.]

   Dōu sàn le ba, Flash píngtái yǐ liáng! [Pinyin]

   [Let's] all go away; the Flash platform is already dead!

   作為手機系統的webOS早就涼透了！ [MSC, trad.]
   作为手机系统的webOS早就凉透了！ [MSC, simp.]

   Zuòwéi shǒujī xìtǒng de webOS zǎojiù liáng tòu le! [Pinyin]

   As a phone OS, webOS is long since thoroughly dead!

6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) free from worry; congenial
7. (Cantonese) to get cool (from a fan or an aircon)

• 冷 (lěng, “cold”)

涼

1. to allow (a hot object) to cool by letting it sit for a while
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to assist

• “涼”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

• 凉

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cool, refreshing
2. lonely, desolate

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: りょう (ryō, Jōyō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kun: すずしい (suzushii, 涼しい, Jōyō)、すずむ (suzumu, 涼む, Jōyō)、すずやか (suzuyaka, 涼やか)、うすい (usui, 涼い)、さがす (sagasu, 涼す)、ひやす (hiyasu, 涼す)、まことに (makotoni)
• Nanori: すけ (suke)、りょ (ryo)

/rɨau/ → /rjau/ → /rjɔː/ → /rjoː/

From Middle Chinese 涼 (MC ljang|ljangH).

• (Tokyo) りょー [ryóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲo̞ː]

涼(りょう) • (ryō) ^{←りやう (ryau)?}

1. cool breeze; refreshing coolness

• 涼(りょう)を取(と)る (ryō o toru, “cool off”)

涼(りょう) • (Ryō) ^{←りやう (Ryau)?}

1. (historical) Liang, name of five of the Sixteen Kingdoms:
   1. 前涼 (Zenryō, “Former Liang”, 320–376 CE)
   2. 後涼 (Kōryō, Goryō, “Later Liang”, 386–403 CE)
   3. 南涼 (Nanryō, “Southern Liang”, 397–414 CE)
   4. 北涼 (Hokuryō, “Northern Liang”, 397–439 CE)
   5. 西涼 (Seiryō, “Western Liang”, 400–421 CE)
2. a female given name

涼 (eumhun 서늘할 량 (seoneulhal ryang), word-initial (South Korea) 서늘할 양 (seoneulhal yang))

1. hanja form^? of 량/양 (“cool, cold”)
2. hanja form^? of 량/양 (“disheartened”)

涼: Hán Nôm readings: lương, ghềnh

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