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

17 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
be hazy, grow dim, blurred
Kun:
かすみかす.む
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1603 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霞 【カスミ】 haze (esp. in spring), mist, dimness (of sight)
  • 霞む 【カスム】 to become misty, to become hazy, to get blurry, to grow dim, to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone
  • 紅霞 【コウカ】 crimson mist, crimson-tinted clouds (e.g. at sunset)
  • 朝霞 【アサガスミ】 morning glow, morning mist (haze)

Kun reading compounds

  • 霞 【かすみ】 haze (esp. in spring), mist, dimness (of sight)
  • かすみ網 【かすみあみ】 mist net (fine mesh for capturing small birds)
  • 雲霞 【うんか】 clouds and haze, swarm (of people), throng, drove, (flee) like the wind, (run) out of sight
  • 霞む 【かすむ】 to become misty, to become hazy, to get blurry, to grow dim, to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xia2
Korean:
ha

Spanish

  • neblina
  • bruma
  • estar brumoso
  • estar nebuloso

Portuguese

French

1530 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5063 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2693 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2261 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3490 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1800 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
42365 Morohashi
2814 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6541 New Nelson (John Haig)
2779 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2800 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3167 2001 Kanji
8d9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-9 SKIP code
1074.7 Four corner code
1024.7 Four corner code
1-18-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
971e Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
谿
mountain stream, valley
Kun:
たにたにがわ
On:
ケイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2063 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 渓谷 【ケイコク】 valley (with a river running through it), gorge, ravine, canyon
  • 渓流 【ケイリュウ】 mountain stream, mountain torrent
  • 雪渓 【セッケイ】 snowy valley
  • 猊鼻渓 【ゲイビケイ】 Geibi Gorge (Ichinoseki, Iwate)

Kun reading compounds

  • 谷 【たに】 valley

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1
Korean:
gye

Spanish

  • arroyo de montaña
  • valle
  • garganta

Portuguese

  • corrente de montanha
  • vale

French

  • torrent
  • gorge
  • vallée étroite
1199 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1822 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2581 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1846 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1484 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1330A Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1884 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2053 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1843 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1206 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
628 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
380 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
474 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
848 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
516 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3196 New Nelson (John Haig)
840 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
903 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1454 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
363 2001 Kanji
3a8.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3213.4 Four corner code
1-23-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e13 Unicode hex code