| 1273 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1702 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4788 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1591 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1837 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1711 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1828 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1596 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1796 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1967 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1048 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1414 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1443 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 39870P | Morohashi |
| 1562 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6176 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1431 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1539 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1735 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1596 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 酷 【コク】 severe, harsh, stringent, rigorous, strict, unfair
- 酷似 【コクジ】 resembling closely, being strikingly similar, bearing a strong likeness
- 残忍冷酷 【ザンニンレイコク】 atrocious and cold-blooded, cruel, brutal, merciless
- 厳酷 【ゲンコク】 severity, rigor, rigour
Kun reading compounds
- 酷い 【ひどい】 cruel, heartless, hard, harsh, severe, violent, intense, strong, heavy, extreme, very bad, terrible, awful, excessive, exorbitant, unreasonable, outrageous, unfair, unjust
- ひどい風邪 【ひどいかぜ】 bad cold
Readings
- Korean:
- hog
Spanish
- severidad
- crueldad
- atrocidad
- injusticia
Portuguese
- injusto
- cruel
- severo
French
- cruel
- atroce
- sévère
- injuste
| 3277 | 2001 Kanji |
| 7e7.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-7 | SKIP code |
| 1466.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-25-83 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9177 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1456 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- 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 |