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寒い

さむい

cold (temperature)

Mnemonic

Straw stuffed under the roof and ice along the floor, and neither of them is doing its job. Sam さむ wants a heater in that room: さむい.

Worth knowing

冷たい つめたい is a thing that is cold when you touch it. 寒い is the air around you and how you feel standing in it.

Built from

cold
宀 a roof with straw packed underneath and 冫 two marks of ice along the bottom. Not enough of either of them.

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