เย็น เยียบ
“เย็น เยียบ” (йен йиап) — icy; freezing cold in Thai. Adjective, level A1. The familiar yen, "cold", boosted by yiap: it pierces, like ice. About a hand from the water, about the wind in the rainy season. In a live sentence: “น้ำ เย็น เยียบ เหมือน น้ำ แข็ง” — The water is icy, like ice. Written with the characters เ, ย, น, เ, ย, ี, ย, บ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เย็น เยียบ |
| Read in Latin letters | йен йиап |
| Translation | icy; freezing cold |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar yen, "cold", boosted by yiap: it pierces, like ice. About a hand from the water, about the wind in the rainy season
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- น้ำ เย็น เยียบ เหมือน น้ำ แข็งнам йен йиап мыан нам кхэнгThe water is icy, like ice
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “icy; freezing cold” in Thai?
«เย็น เยียบ», read “йен йиап”. In a live sentence: “น้ำ เย็น เยียบ เหมือน น้ำ แข็ง” — The water is icy, like ice. Adjective, level A1; written with the characters เ, ย, น, เ, ย, ี, ย, บ.
How is “เย็น เยียบ” written in Latin letters?
йен йиап. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The familiar yen, "cold", boosted by yiap: it pierces, like ice. About a hand from the water, about the wind in the rainy season. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.