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Cold Radical Animal Celery Cool Legs Stalk House

Kanji
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
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.

Tags: jlpt.n4, grade3, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_physical.properties_miscellaneous

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