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寒 kanji
cold
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
カン
Kun readings
さむい
Words with 寒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —寒暖cold and heat; (degree of) temperature
- —寒餅mochi made in winter
- —小寒"minor cold" solar term (approx. January 6)
- —避寒going somewhere warmer for the winter; wintering
- —飢寒hunger and cold
- —大寒(time of) extreme cold; "major cold" solar term (approx. January 20, roughly the coldest time of the year)
- —耐寒resistance to cold
- —寒鮒crucian carp caught in midwinter
- —冴寒extreme cold
- —寒鯛Asian sheepshead wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus); scarbreast tuskfin (Choerodon azurio)
- —寒露late-autumn or early-winter dew; "cold dew" solar term (approx. October 8)
- —寒菅Carex morrowii
- —冷寒cold; chilly
- —寒葵Asarum nipponicum (species of wild ginger)
- —寒雷winter thunder; thunderstorm accompanying a cold front
- —寒雨cold winter rain
- —寒雲clouds in midwinter; cold winter clouds
- —寒煙cold smoke
- —寒鰤yellowtail caught during the cold season; cold yellowtail
- —寒鯉koi carp caught during the cold season