冷汗

Chinese

		cold	perspiration; sweat
trad. (冷汗)		冷	汗
simp. ^#(冷汗)		冷	汗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): lěnghàn

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄥˇ ㄏㄢˋ

(Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): lènghān
Cantonese (Jyutping): laang⁵ hon⁶
Gan (Wiktionary): 'lang³ hon⁵
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): lang¹ hon⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): léng-kōaⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): nên² guan⁷
Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): liang⁵ haan⁶
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶lan-ghoe₆

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lěnghàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄥˇ ㄏㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lěnghàn
  - Wade–Giles: lêng³-han⁴
  - Yale: lěng-hàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leenghann
  - Palladius: лэнхань (lɛnxanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xän⁵¹/
- (Xi'an)
  - Guanzhong Pinyin: lènghān
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ləŋ⁵³ xã⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
  - Jyutping: laang⁵ hon⁶
  - Yale: láahng hohn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: laang⁵ hon⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lang⁵ hon⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːŋ¹³ hɔːn²²/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'lang³ hon⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈlaŋ²¹³⁻²⁴ hɵn¹¹/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: lang¹ hon⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /laŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ hɔn⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: léng-kōaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: líng-kuānn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lefngkvoa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuã²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kuã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuã²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuã³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kuã³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: nên² guan⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: néⁿ kuāⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nẽ⁵²⁻³⁵ kũã¹¹/
Southern Pinghua
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
  - Jyutping++: liang⁵ haan⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liɐŋ²⁴ han²²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁶lan-ghoe₆
  - MiniDict: lan^去 ghoe^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lan-hhoe₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lã²² ɦø⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /lã²³ ɦø¹¹/

Noun

冷汗

cold sweat
冒冷汗 ― mào lěnghàn ― to break out in a cold sweat

飆冷汗／飙冷汗 [Cantonese] ― biu¹ laang⁵ hon⁶ [Jyutping] ― to break out in a cold sweat

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 冷汗 (“cold sweat”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		冷汗
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	冷汗
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	冷汗
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	冷汗
Cantonese	Guangzhou	冷汗, 淡汗
Cantonese	Hong Kong	冷汗
Gan	Nanchang	冷汗
Gan	Pingxiang	冷汗
Hakka	Meixian	冷汗
Huizhou	Jixi	冷汗
Northern Min	Jian'ou	凊汗
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	凊汗
Southern Min	Xiamen	凊汗
	Quanzhou	凊汗
	Zhangzhou	凊汗
	Tainan	凊汗
	Shantou	凊汗
	Jieyang	凊汗
	Leizhou	凊汗
Puxian Min	Putian	凊汗, 烏煞汗
Puxian Min	Xianyou	凊汗, 烏煞汗
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	冷汗
Wu	Suzhou	冷汗
Wu	Wenzhou	冷汗

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
冷	汗
れい Grade: 4	かん Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) れーかん [rèékáń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːkã̠ɴ]

Noun

冷(れい)汗(かん) • (reikan)

cold sweat

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
冷	汗
ひや Grade: 4	あせ Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 冷汗 – see the following entry.

【冷ひや汗あせ】

[noun] cold sweat

(This term, 冷汗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“冷汗”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025