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Mythic Mandarin

寒 (hán): meaning and stroke order

寒 (hán) means cold, poor, to tremble.

寒

Simplified
寒
Traditional
寒 (same form)
Pinyin
hán

Stroke order of 寒

寒

  • hán cold; poor
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 寒

  1. hán
    • cold
    • poor
    • to tremble

Radical and structure

寒
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 12 strokes · 𡨄 on top, 冫 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 寒

  • 寒食 hán shí cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节); the Qingming festival
  • 寒窗 hán chuāng a life of strenuous studies (idiom)

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).