凉 cool, refreshing, not excited, disheartened, composed, unruffled, unconcerned, looking 'cool' (as used in the vernacular) 冫,京,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リョウ
RYO　U

Kun-yomi

すず(しい　･　すず(む　･　すず(やか　･　うす(い　･　ひや(す　･　まことに
su　zu　shi　i　･　su　zu　mu　･　su　zu　ya　ka　･　u　su　i　･　hi　ya　su　･　ma　ko　to　ni

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冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

京

キョウ,ケイ,キン,みやこ human mound, unnatural mound, humans piled upon other humans, something really big, 10,000,000,000,000,000; capital city, metropolis

　PALMING, CONTROL of ORIFICE of SMALL YOUTH, STREAMING EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

HEATED THEN COOLED with PALMING CONTROL of ORIFICE and MONS PUBIS, SMALL STREAM OF EMISSIONS
…or: COOLING PROCESS, CONGEAL, LOWER TEMPERATURE, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER with UNNATURAL HUMAN MOUND, HUMANS PILED UPON OTHER HUMANS, SOMETHING REALLY BIG, 10,000,000,000,000,000
…or: HARDEN and CAPITAL CITY, METROPOLIS,

「Two states, turgid then flaccid」with「palming control of head, orifice with emitted small stream」that can become COOL soon, especially after being heated and flaming, and if still covered with a stream of fluid emissions (saliva, mucus) from an orifice—remember that evaporation is a cooling process. NO LONGER EXCITED about what is coming means COOL as used to describe demeanor, that is, not filled with heated enthusiasm.
「Flow」in「capital」capital cities are normally unusually hot due to the amount of area covered by buildings, pavement, parking lots, expressways, etc., and lacking greenery, so any water in a big city can be especially REFRESHING. Statement about city life being COOL for some folks, or city dwellers as having cold personalities.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cool; cold; the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)
Japanese EDRDG: nice and cool
Unihan extended: cool, cold; disheartened

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.