寒 – cold

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The kanji 寒 means cold. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is カン (kan); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is さむ.い (samui). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 宀 (no. 40).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	カン	kan
Kun’yomi	さむ.い	samui

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 宀 (Kangxi radical 40). Components: 一・ハ・宀・丶・井.

Words using 寒

寒いさむいcold (e.g. weather)寒帯かんたいfrigid zone寒気さむけchill

Example sentences

寒いからコートを着るべきだ。

It's cold so you should wear a coat.

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この寒さにはもう耐えられない。

I can no longer stand the cold.

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その光景を見て私は背筋に寒気がした。

The sight made a chill run down my spine.

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Kanji with the same radical

定実家安官容宅害宮審守察室客完富

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.