かん
Meanings
Noun
1. 冬至から数えて15日目から、立春までの30日間。もっとも寒い時期とされる。寒中。
2. 語義1の時期のような寒さ。
Kanji used
cold
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (60 in total)
chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air
① 極めて酷い寒さ。極度の寒さ。
freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin
cold; coldness; chilliness
deserted village; poor village
wintry moon; a winter month
resistance to cold
camellia-like plant native to China
① 寒さと暖かさ。
① 厳しい寒さ。
mid-winter; cold season
cold color; cold colour
① 酷い寒さ。
cold and heat; chills and fever
hot and cold; summer and winter
cold night
① 海流のうち、高緯度から低緯度に流れるもの。
① 極圏から両極までの寒冷な地帯。
destitution
(time of) extreme cold; "major cold" solar term (approx. January 20, roughly the coldest time of the year)
deplorable; alarming
① 寒い地域。
① 春になっても寒いこと。
a cold air mass
"minor cold" solar term (approx. January 6)
cold; chilly
① 春先に再び寒くなる現象。春の季語。
keeping the head cool and feet warm
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
① 冬の冷たい水。
winter plum tree with reddish blossoms
yellowtail caught during the cold season; cold yellowtail
Taiwan cherry (Prunus campanulata); winter cherry tree
mochi made in winter
beginning of midwinter
suffering caused by the cold
made in the winter (sake)
① 春になっても寒いこと。
whitish marble (from northern Ibaraki); white limestone
Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice
the beginning of spring
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
damage from cold weather
winter thunder; thunderstorm accompanying a cold front
suffering in poverty; abject poverty
freezing mixture; refrigerant
Carex morrowii
a place of extreme cold
isocheim; isochime; isochryme; map contour connecting points with the same mean winter temperature
cold points (of the skin)
winter visit to a shrine
ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
poor isolated village; one's hometown
egg laid in winter
Pleiades (esp. in winter)
Shijimi clam caught during winter
Cambria (old name for Wales)
Asarum nipponicum (species of wild ginger)
Examples (1 in total)
Lake Akan is frozen over.