Question

寒 さむ.い cold 4 1456 12 40 うかんむり 会意 Compound Ideographic Don't mix up with cool (#1404), when the cool boys order each other around. This kind of cold has to do with weather. When its cold outside, I stay at home and have hot celery soup with chicken legs to keep out the ice. 寒い　＝　さむい　＝cold.

Accepted Answer

カン さ, さん 寒気(かんき): (1) chill; the shivers; shivering fit (2) cold; coldness; cold air寒い(さむい): (1) cold (e.g. weather) (2) dull; uninteresting; lame寒帯(かんたい): frigid zone or belt 3 宀: shaped crown; katakana u radical (no. 40)三: three八: eight; eight radical (no. 12)冫: two-stroke water radical or ice radical (no. 15) 宀 3 (none) cold Some strange animal tried to steal a stalk of celery from my house. However, it was freezing and the floor was covered in ice, so the mysterious animal couldn´t get any traction. Picture a stalk of celery and a pair of animal legs slipping and sliding clumsily around the ice, and never able to leave the house. Eventually it got so cold that the little animal froze to death.

Kanji	寒
Onyomi	カン
Kunyomi	さむ.い
Nanori	さ, さん
English	cold
Examples	寒気(かんき): (1) chill; the shivers; shivering fit (2) cold; coldness; cold air 寒い(さむい): (1) cold (e.g. weather) (2) dull; uninteresting; lame 寒帯(かんたい): frigid zone or belt
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	3
Frequency	1456
Components	宀: shaped crown; katakana u radical (no. 40) 三: three 八: eight; eight radical (no. 12) 冫: two-stroke water radical or ice radical (no. 15)
Number of Strokes	12
Kanji Radical	宀
Radical Number	40
Radical Strokes	3
Radical Reading	うかんむり
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	cold
Koohii Story 1	Don't mix up with cool (#1404), when the cool boys order each other around. This kind of cold has to do with weather. When its cold outside, I stay at home and have hot celery soup with chicken legs to keep out the ice. 寒い　＝　さむい　＝cold.
Koohii Story 2	Some strange animal tried to steal a stalk of celery from my house. However, it was freezing and the floor was covered in ice, so the mysterious animal couldn´t get any traction. Picture a stalk of celery and a pair of animal legs slipping and sliding clumsily around the ice, and never able to leave the house. Eventually it got so cold that the little animal froze to death.

Cold Radical Animal Celery Cool Legs Stalk House