寒

寒 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金卜 (JTCY), four-corner 3030₃, composition ⿱𡨄⺀(GTJV) or ⿱𡨄冫(K))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 289, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7239
• Dae Jaweon: page 572, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 941, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5BD2

Historical forms of the character 寒
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“house”) + 人 (“person”) + 茻 (“grass”) – a person in a house, sleeping in the grass to protect from the cold. In some bronze inscriptions, 二 is added at the bottom of the character; this may simply be decorative or may represent a mat. In the seal script, 二 is changed to 仌 (“ice”) to emphasize its meaning of coldness.

Contrast 宿.

Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

寒

1. cold; wintry; chilly
2. poor; poverty-stricken
3. humble; petty and low
4. desolate; deserted
5. dreary; miserable
6. withered; limp
7. (humble) my

   寒舍  ―  hánshè  ―  (one's own) humble home

8. to feel cold
9. to fear; to dread
10. winter
11. cold weather; cold day or night
12. (traditional Chinese medicine) cold; chill
13. (～日) (telegraphy) the fourteenth day of a month

• (cold): 冷 (lěng)

• “Entry #8312”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “寒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	寒
Kyūjitai [1]	寒󠄁 寒+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	寒󠄃 寒+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. cold

• Go-on: がん (gan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kun: さむい (samui, 寒い, Jōyō)、いやしい (iyashii, 寒しい)、さびしい (sabishii, 寒しい)、まずしい (mazushii, 寒しい)
• Nanori: さ (sa)、さん (san)

From Middle Chinese 寒 (MC han).

The basic cold sense as an affix is attested from some of the earliest texts in the 700s CE.^[2] Use as an independent noun is first attested in a text from roughly 900 CE.^[2]

• (Tokyo) かん (Atamadaka – )^[3][4]
• (Tokyo) かん (Heiban – )^[3][4]
• IPA^(key):

寒(かん) • (kan) 

1. cold, chilly
2. (by extension) poor, poverty-stricken
3. midwinter, cold season

寒(かん) • (kan) 

1. cold, coldness
2. midwinter, cold season
   • a haiku by Matsuo Bashō:

     干(かん)鮭(ざけ)も　空(くう)也(や)の痩(やせ)も　寒(かん)の内(うち)

     kanzake mo Kūya no yase mo kan no uchi

     Salted salmon too, also Kūya's thinning too, in the cold season

From Middle Chinese 寒 (MC han). Recorded as Middle Korean 한 (han) (Yale: han) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

寒

Wikisource

寒 (eumhun 찰 한 (chal han))

1. hanja form^? of 한 (“cold; chilly”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

寒: Hán Việt readings: hàn (河(hà)干(can)切(thiết))^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
寒: Nôm readings: hàn^[1][2][4][6]

1. chữ Hán form of hàn (“coldness”).