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寒

hán

HSK 4 Character

What 寒 means

1. cold
2. poor
3. to tremble

Example sentences

• 寒冬来临。
  Hándōng láilín.
  Cold winter came on.
• 我出身贫寒。
  Wǒ chūshēn pínhán.
  I grew up in a poor family.
• 我喜欢寒冷。
  I like the cold.
• 天气异常寒冷。
  Tiānqì yìcháng hánlěng.
  The weather is unusually cold.
• 天气非常寒冷。
  It's very cold.
• 这里有点寒冷。
  It's a little chilly in here.

Words starting with 寒

• 寒假hán jiàwinter vacation
• 寒暄hán xuānto exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
• 寒冷hán lěngcold (climate); frigid; very cold
• 寒风hán fēngcold wind
• 寒意hán yìa nip in the air; chilliness
• 寒冬hán dōngcold winter
• 寒气hán qìcold air; a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
• 寒酸hán suānwretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
• 寒流hán liúcold air current; cold ocean current; cold stream
• 寒心hán xīndisillusioned; bitterly disappointed; terrified
• 寒碜hán chenugly; shameful; to ridicule
• 寒窗hán chuānga life of strenuous studies (idiom)
• 寒食hán shícold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明节)…
• 寒士hán shì(old) impoverished scholar
• 寒天hán tiānchilly weather; (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar
• 寒带hán dàipolar climate
• 寒微hán wēiof humble origin
• 寒战hán zhànshiver
• 寒毛hán máofine hair on the human body
• 寒潮hán cháocold wave
• 寒腿hán tuǐ(colloquial) arthritic condition affecting the legs, esp. one aggravated by cold or damp…
• 寒舍hán shèmy humble home
• 寒衣hán yīwinter clothing
• 寒门hán ménpoor and humble family; my family (humble)

Words containing 寒

• 严寒yán hánbitter cold; severe winter
• 贫寒pín hánpoor; poverty-stricken; impoverished
• 不寒而栗bù hán ér lìlit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom); fig. to tremble with fear; to be terrified
• 御寒yù hánto defend against the cold; to keep warm
• 心寒xīn hánbitterly disappointed; frightened
• 风寒fēng hánwind chill; cold weather; common cold (medicine)
• 伤寒shāng hántyphoid
• 天寒地冻tiān hán dì dòng(idiom) bitterly cold; frigid
• 韩寒Hán HánHan Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver
• 嘘寒问暖xū hán wèn nuǎnto enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom); to pamper
• 饥寒交迫jī hán jiāo pòbeset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
• 胆寒dǎn hánto fear; to be terrified
• 高寒gāo hánhigh and cold (mountain area)
• 受寒shòu hánaffected by cold; to catch cold
• 大寒Dà hánGreat Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
• 孤寒gū hánalone and poor; humble; (Cantonese) miserly
• 小寒Xiǎo hánLesser Cold, 23rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 6th-19th January
• 极寒jí hánextreme cold
• 清寒qīng hánpoor; underprivileged; (of weather) crisp and clear
• 耐寒nài háncoldproof; resistant to cold
• 苦寒kǔ hánbitter cold
• 荒寒huāng hándesolate and cold; frozen wastes
• 解寒jiě hánto relieve cold
• 避寒bì hánto escape the cold by going on a winter holiday

Characters that look like 寒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 像xiàngto resemble; to be like; to look as if
• 塞sè(bound form) to block; to obstruct
• 奠diànto fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 窟kūcave; hole
• 禀bǐngto make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow
• 巽xùnto obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦; ☴

Sounds the same

Read hán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 含to keep in the mouth; to contain
• 涵to contain; to include; culvert
• 韩Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 战国七雄…
• 函envelope; case; letter
• 邯used in 邯郸
• 焓enthalpy
• 晗before daybreak; dawn about to break; (used in given names)
• 邗name of an ancient river
• 琀gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse
• 甝white tiger
• 鋡to hold; to contain
• 唅(literary) to put in the mouth