Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:
cold
Kun:
さむ.い
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1456 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 寒 【カン】 midwinter, cold season, coldest days of the year
  • 寒気 【サムケ】 chill, the shivers, shivering fit, cold, coldness, cold air
  • 悪寒 【オカン】 chill, shakes, ague
  • 防寒 【ボウカン】 protection against cold

Kun reading compounds

  • 寒い 【さむい】 cold (e.g. weather), uninteresting (esp. joke), lame, dull, weak, corny

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 さん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
han2
Korean:
han

Spanish

  • frío
  • desolado

Portuguese

  • Frio

French

  • froid (temps)
175 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
263 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
245 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1195 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1322 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
831 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
159 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1714 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
457 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
464 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
120 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
490 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2894 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1490 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2011 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1540 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7239X Morohashi
2311 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1350 New Nelson (John Haig)
1526 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1645 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
393 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
740 2001 Kanji
3m9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
3030.3 Four corner code
1-20-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5bd2 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
thunder, lightning bolt
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1491 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雷 【カミナリ】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雨 【ライウ】 thunderstorm
  • 機雷 【キライ】 (sea) mine
  • 界雷 【カイライ】 frontal thunderstorm

Kun reading compounds

  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雲 【らいうん】 thundercloud
  • 水雷 【みずがみなり】 thunder accompanied by rain, lightning that does not start a fire
  • 日雷 【ひがみなり】 thunder on a clear day, lightning that starts a fire
  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雲 【らいうん】 thundercloud
  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lei2
Korean:
roe

Spanish

  • trueno
  • relámpago
  • rayo

Portuguese

  • trovão
  • raio

French

  • tonnerre
  • foudre
1888 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1524 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5049 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1204 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1889 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2026 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
952 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
982 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
843 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1863 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3466 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1785 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2432 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
432 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42245 Morohashi
2791 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6525 New Nelson (John Haig)
425 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
454 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1685 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3176 2001 Kanji
8d5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-5 SKIP code
1060.1 Four corner code
1060.3 Four corner code
1-45-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96f7 Unicode hex code