HSK 4 · Adjectives

凉快 liángkuai “nice and cold” in Chinese

Traditional 涼快

What 凉快 means

  1. nice and cold
  2. pleasantly cool
  3. pleasantly cool (weather etc)
  4. to cool oneself
  5. to cool off
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (coll.) to stay out of it
  • to butt out

How to say 凉快

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale凉liáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own快kuaineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

凉快 in a sentence

  1. 今天很凉快。

    Jīntiān hěn liángkuai.

    It’s nice and cool today.

    Sentence #405263 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 凉快 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 凉 (liáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
凉liángcool
  • 冫ice · bīngMeaning part
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part

冫 hints at the meaning (ice); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with liáng.

The character 快 (kuài) with each of its parts in a different colour
快kuàirapidlight in 凉快
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīn
  • 夬decisive · guài

Memory aidHeart 忄 with 夬 (guài) for the sound: happy, and fast.

How to write 凉快

凉 10 strokes · 快 7 strokes

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凉快 (liángkuai) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 凉快 (liángkuai). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 凉快

Words with 凉

着凉zháoliáng · to catch a cold荒凉huāngliáng · desolate凄凉qīliáng · desolate

Words with 快

快kuài · fast快乐kuàilè · happy快要kuàiyào · about to愉快yúkuài · cheerful痛快tòngkuài · delighted赶快gǎnkuài · quickly尽快jǐnkuài · as soon as possible爽快shuǎngkuài · frank快活kuàihuo · happy

More words: Adjectives

懒lǎn · lazy冷静lěngjìng · calm礼貌lǐmào · courtesy厉害lìhai · impressive流利liúlì · fluent流行liúxíng · popular乱luàn · in confusion or disorder马虎mǎhu · careless

FAQs

凉快 (liángkuai) means “nice and cold” or “pleasantly cool”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it liángkuai: liáng with a 2nd tone, then kuai with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 凉快 is written 涼快. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liangkuai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 凉快 from the suggestions. Typing liangkuai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
凉快 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.