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
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
freezing mixture; refrigerant
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.