肌寒い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はだ
Grade: S
さむ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
膚寒い

Etymology

Compound of (hada, skin) + 寒い (samui, cold),[1][2] literally "cold to the skin".

Sometimes encountered with the reading hadazamui, exhibiting rendaku.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ださむ [hàdásámúꜜì] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠da̠sa̠mɯ̟ᵝi]

Adjective

(はだ)(さむ) • (hadasamui) -i (adverbial (はだ)(さむ) (hadasamuku)) (alternative reading hiragana はだざむい, rōmaji hadazamui)

  1. chilly

Inflection

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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