hán
cold
Depicts a person (人) under a roof (宀) surrounding himself with grass bedding (茻) to try to stay warm in the cold weather. The 冫 (ice) component was added later.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 寒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
frigid | ||
cold | ||
winter vacation | ||
Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver | ||
wintry |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.[g]ˤa[n] | han | hán | cold |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 7.5124% of movies
2243rd most common character in movies
1297th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5BD2 |
Shuowen | “寒，凍也。从人在宀下，以茻薦覆之，下有仌。” |
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