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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
- —寒の入りbeginning of midwinter
- —厳寒の候the coldest season (weather)
- —寒帯気団polar air mass
- —寒帯前線polar front
- —寒天培地nutrient agar
- —寒気凛々it (the weather) being piercing (bitterly) cold
- —寒中見舞winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season
- —酷寒猛暑bitter cold and fierce heat
- —一暴十寒bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness; strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail
- —枯木寒巌withered trees and frozen rocks; a person that is hard to approach
- —寒熱往来alternating chills and fever
- —寒地植物psychrophyte
- —寒地荒原cold desert; arctic desert; fell-field
- —歳寒三友the three friends of winter (pine, bamboo and plum)
- —寒風摩擦rubdown with a dry towel
- —寒の戻りreturn to midwinter cold; cold spell in spring
- —防寒対策taking precautions against the cold (e.g. by dressing warmly)
- —亜寒帯気候subarctic climate
- —寒冷高気圧cold anticyclone
- —河童の寒稽古something that looks difficult but actually isn't; swimming in a cold lake during mid-winter seems difficult, but it's nothing to a kappa