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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
- —等寒線isocheim; isochime; isochryme; map contour connecting points with the same mean winter temperature
- —寒苦鳥cold-suffering bird; kankuchō; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes; (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori
- —緋寒桜Taiwan cherry (Prunus campanulata); winter cherry tree
- —寒緋桜Taiwan cherry (Prunus campanulata); winter cherry tree
- —寒梅粉flour made from cooked glutinous rice
- —寒水石whitish marble (from northern Ibaraki); white limestone
- —寒造りmade in the winter (sake)
- —寒忌竹centipede plant (Homalocladium platycladum); tapeworm plant; ribbonbush
- —防寒帽arctic cap; watch cap
- —寒暖差temperature difference
- —耐寒性cold resistance
- —防寒着winter clothes
- —寒牡丹tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); winter peony
- —大寒波cold snap; wave of extremely cold weather
- —寒締めexposing greenhouse-grown fruit and vegetables to cold before harvesting
- —傷寒論Shanghan Lun (treatise on traditional Chinese medicine compiled by Zhang Zhongjing); Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders; Treatise on Cold Injury
- —三寒四温alternation of three cold and four warm days (usu. in late winter and early spring)
- —頭寒足熱keeping the head cool and feet warm
- —寒中水泳swimming in the middle of winter or the cold season
- —寒冷前線cold front