寒冷 (hán lěng) means “cold (climate); frigid; very cold”. It is an HSK 4 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
冬天的北方非常寒冷。
Dōngtiān de běifāng fēicháng hánlěng.
The north is very cold in winter.
Updated: 2026-07-18