冷暖

Chinese

		cold	warm; toasty
trad. (冷暖)		冷	暖
simp. #(冷暖)		冷	暖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěngnuǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄥˇ ㄋㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laang⁵ nyun⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): léng-loán

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nên² luang²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lěngnuǎn [Phonetic: léngnuǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄥˇ ㄋㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lěngnuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: lêng³-nuan³
    • Yale: lěng-nwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leengnoan
    • Palladius: лэннуань (lɛnnuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ nu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: laang⁵ nyun⁵
    • Yale: láahng nyúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laang⁵ nyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lang⁵ nün⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːŋ¹³ nyːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: léng-loán
    • Tâi-lô: líng-luán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lefngloarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ luan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ luan⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nên² luang²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: néⁿ luáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nẽ⁵²⁻³⁵ luaŋ⁵²⁻²¹/

Noun

冷暖

1. coldness and warmness; daily changes in temperature
2. (figuratively) well-being (of people); health, comfort and prosperity
3. (figuratively) ways of the world; hypocrisy of the world

Derived terms

• 世情看冷暖，人面逐高低
• 人情冷暖 (rénqínglěngnuǎn)
• 人間冷暖／人间冷暖
• 冷暖自知
• 如人飲水，冷暖自知／如人饮水，冷暖自知 (rú rén yǐnshuǐ, lěngnuǎn zìzhī)
• 看冷暖