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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
- —寒蝉cicadas which sing in late autumn
- —寒鴉winter crow
- —寒烏crow in winter
- —甚寒intense cold
- —残寒lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter
- —寒九ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
- —寒蜆Shijimi clam caught during winter
- —寒昴Pleiades (esp. in winter)
- —寒熱cold and heat; chills and fever
- —寒酸suffering in poverty; abject poverty
- —寒水cold water; water in midwinter
- —寒蛩chirping of crickets in late autumn
- —寒郷poor isolated village; one's hometown
- —寒苦suffering caused by the cold
- —寒暁cold winter dawn
- —寒雀winter sparrow (said to be tasty and having healing properties); sparrow in winter
- —寒桜Prunus kanzakura (species of winter-blooming cherry tree); Chinese primrose (Primula sinensis)
- —寒松winter pine; pine tree that endures the cold of winter; person who does not waver from their own principles
- —寒食Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice
- —傷寒acute febrile illness (e.g. typhoid); disease due to the cold (in traditional Chinese medicine)