かん
Meanings
Noun
1. midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (59 in total)
mid-winter; cold season
cold; coldness; chilliness
freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin
camellia-like plant native to China
destitution
lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter
a place of extreme cold
cold night
cold and heat; chills and fever
cold; chilly
keeping the head cool and feet warm
Taiwan cherry (Prunus campanulata); winter cherry tree
mochi made in winter
whitish marble (from northern Ibaraki); white limestone
cold; coldness; cold air
extreme cold; intense cold; coldest season; midwinter
deserted village; poor village
wintry moon; a winter month
resistance to cold
cold and heat; (degree of) temperature
intense cold
cold color; cold colour
severe cold; intense cold; bitter cold
yellowtail caught during the cold season; cold yellowtail
hot and cold; summer and winter
cold current
frigid zone
(time of) extreme cold; "major cold" solar term (approx. January 20, roughly the coldest time of the year)
deplorable; alarming
cold region
lingering winter
a cold air mass
"minor cold" solar term (approx. January 6)
return to midwinter cold; cold spell in spring
winter spiritual austerities
late-autumn or early-winter dew; "cold dew" solar term (approx. October 8)
winter sparrow (said to be tasty and having healing properties); sparrow in winter
winter plum tree with reddish blossoms
Carex morrowii
cold water; water in midwinter
beginning of midwinter
suffering caused by the cold
made in the winter (sake)
damage from cold weather
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
the beginning of spring
Asarum nipponicum (species of wild ginger)
winter thunder; thunderstorm accompanying a cold front
suffering in poverty; abject poverty
Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice
egg laid in winter
winter visit to a shrine
cold points (of the skin)
freezing mixture; refrigerant
ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
Shijimi clam caught during winter
Pleiades (esp. in winter)
isocheim; isochime; isochryme; map contour connecting points with the same mean winter temperature
poor isolated village; one's hometown
Examples (1 in total)
Lake Akan is frozen over.