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凉 — cool; cold

Pinyin
liáng · liàng · Liáng
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — liáng, liàng, Liáng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 凉: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

凉 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 凉 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 凉快liángkuaipleasantly cool; to cool oneself; to cool offHSK 3
  2. 凉liángthe five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉, Later Liang 後涼|后凉, Northern Liang 北涼|北凉, Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2], Western Liang 西涼|西凉HSK 4
  3. 着凉zháoliángto catch coldHSK 5
  4. 荒凉huāngliángdesolateHSK 7–9
  5. 凉爽liángshuǎngcool and refreshingHSK 7–9
  6. 凄凉qīliángmournful; miserableHSK 7–9
  7. 清凉qīngliángcool; refreshing; skimpy; revealingHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.