涼 – refreshing, nice and cool

11 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1783 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 涼 means refreshing, nice and cool. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is リョウ (ryou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is すず.しい、すず.む、すず.やか、うす.い、ひや.す、まことに (suzushii, suzumu, suzuyaka, usui, hiyasu, makotoni). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 水 (no. 85).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	リョウ	ryou
Kun’yomi	すず.しい	suzushii
Kun’yomi	すず.む	suzumu
Kun’yomi	すず.やか	suzuyaka
Kun’yomi	うす.い	usui
Kun’yomi	ひや.す	hiyasu
Kun’yomi	まことに	makotoni

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 水 (Kangxi radical 85). Components: 口・汁・小・亠.

Words using 涼

涼しいすずしいcool涼むすずむto cool oneself

Example sentences

日増しに涼しくなっていく。

It's getting cooler day by day.

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Kanji with the same radical

決法治派済活海求水減演流沢消準渡

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