VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

寒い

さむい

hepburn samui

cold (weather)

Part of speech · i-adjective

Pattern visualization

寒cold

Show part origins

Show stroke order animation

Numbers12 strokes · 8.3s

See full reference →

Examples

今日は寒いですね。
It's cold today, isn't it.
冬は寒くなります。
Winter gets cold.

Collocations

寒い日寒くなる (turn cold)寒い冬寒すぎる (too cold)寒くて~ (cold and...)

Mnemonic

寒い samui — i-adjective. WEATHER COLD only. Touch-cold (cold objects/hands) uses 冷たい tsumetai (batch 6). Opposite of 暑い atsui-hot. Korean (chupda / cha-da) split maps 1-to-1.

Quick check

For "my hands are cold (touch)", which adjective?