Character: 冷
Modern (Beijing) reading: lěng
Preclassic Old Chinese: rēŋʔ
Classic Old Chinese: rḗŋ
Western Han Chinese: rḗŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: riḗŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: liḗŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: liḗŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: liḗŋ
Middle Chinese: lạ́iŋ
English meaning : cold [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) холод; холодно; холодный; 2) оцепенение; оцепенелый; 3) безлюдный; 4) неупотребительный (иероглиф); 5) холостой (выстрел); 6) перен. холодный, безучастный; безразличный, равнодушный; 7) Лэн (фамилия)
Comments: MC lạ́iŋ is irregular (a retroflex vowel after l-) and probably dialectal in origin; there is, indeed, a MC reading lieŋ, but it is used only in the reduplication lieŋ-lieŋ "a pure, 'icy', ling-ling sound". Viet. lạnh is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is lãnh. The word is most probably a late dialect variant of 涼 *raŋ q.v. For *r cf. Xiamen liŋ3, Chaozhou ne3, Fuzhou leŋ3, Jianou laiŋ3.
Radical: 15
Four-angle index: 2072
Karlgren code: 0823 h
Vietnamese reading: lạnh
