寒

Glyph origin
– a person in a house, sleeping in the grass to protect from the cold. In some bronze inscriptions, is added at the bottom of the character; this may simply be decorative or may represent a mat. In the seal script, is changed to  to emphasize its meaning of coldness.

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Etymology
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Definitions

 * 1) cold; wintry; chilly
 * 2) poor; poverty-stricken
 * 3) humble; petty and low
 * 4) desolate; deserted
 * 5) dreary; miserable
 * 6) withered; limp
 * 7)  my
 * 8) to feel cold
 * 9) to fear; to dread
 * 10) winter
 * 11) cold weather; cold day or night
 * 12)  cold; chill
 * 13)   the fourteenth day of a month
 * 1)   the fourteenth day of a month

Kanji

 * 1) cold

Etymology
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The basic sense as an affix is attested from some of the earliest texts in the 700s. Use as an independent noun is first attested in a text from roughly 900.

Affix

 * 1)  cold, chilly
 * 2)   poor, poverty-stricken
 * 3)  midwinter, cold season

Noun

 * 1)  cold, coldness
 * 2)  midwinter, cold season
 * 3) * a haiku by :

Etymology
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