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Shoko Umemura
Shoko Umemura
4 years ago

When I try to remember a character with a correct meaning, I always look at the radicals. Once you know the meaning of the radicals, the character is usually related to what the radical represents. And the parts that are not radicals tell us the pronunciations. For this character 冷, the right side tells us the pronunciation.

Elise Danielle Truchan
Elise Danielle Truchan
4 years ago

This character can be memorized because the top of the right side of the character looks like a hat and the part under that looks like a scarf. These are what people wear when it is cold outside.

Christina Chung
Christina Chung
4 years ago

This character can be memorized because radical is water and the right side is like a roof providing warmth from the cold.

Valeria Fernanda Wong
Valeria Fernanda Wong
4 years ago

This character is very similar to 今 from 今天. What I do to remember it is to think of a cold day, so I add the ice radical and try to remember that there is an additional dián stoke.

Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
4 years ago

I remember this character by creating a story out of it. The character looks like a person is staying underneath a roof (basically stay inside the house) and the two dots represent snow.

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
3 years ago

How I memorize this character: the left hand side radical is ice; and the right hand side looks like a house (like a roof)– stay inside house when it’s cold outside. Thus, I think of an icy / snowy winter day and how it is cold.

Dome Suarez Vivanco
Dome Suarez Vivanco
2 years ago

for me, the character looks like a house with a chimney that helps you stay warm when the weather is COLD

Emiliano Cossu
Emiliano Cossu
1 year ago

This character gives me the idea of cold because when someone is warm, they go under a roof, and under that roof, they might grab a chair to sit in. While on the exterior part of the character, it looks like there is snow outside.

Joshua Wong
Joshua Wong
1 year ago

the radical is ice and the component looks like the character from today, if there’s ice out today it feels cold

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
1 year ago

It looks like a person huddling under the roof cause they are so cold.

amira
amira
1 year ago

I remember this character by imagining a scenario. There is a mountain in the background, and the dot underneath is a person’s head with its body and skis composed underneath. The radical of ice looks like snow/wind/rain blowing against the person skiing, when that happens we feel the cold.

Alora Linehan
Alora Linehan
1 year ago

冷 has an ice radical to help you remember it is cold. the character looks like a person hiding in their house because it is cold outside.

Omar Kallas
Omar Kallas
1 year ago

This right side of the character looks like a person inside a house. The person looks like he’s cuddled up (almost like he’s lifting his legs up to his chest), so he’s feeling cold. The ice radical also makes it look like it is snowing outside

Alora Linehan
Alora Linehan
1 year ago

冷 has an ice radical, and the right component looks like a person cuddled up in their house since it’s cold outside.

Bulat Sharafiev
Bulat Sharafiev
10 months ago

On the right we can clearly see a person who is hiding under the roof and on the left side is snow going on outside.

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Aidan Nagle
Aidan Nagle
9 months ago

the ice radicles are outside the house so it is too cold to go outside.

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NYU Shanghai
Muhammadaziz Odilov
Muhammadaziz Odilov
2 months ago

I memorized this character by imagining that the water radical and the line inside of the house roof as snows falling to the sitting person. and when it snows, it is very cold.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Temuun-Orgil
Temuun-Orgil
19 days ago

the character leng itself looks like a snowflake so it is easy to remember 冷

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai