cold
寒 centers on the sensation and state of cold, especially the kind that makes one shiver or feel chilled.
寒 combines 宀 (roof) with 茻 (straw) and 冫 (ice), suggesting a person inside a house with straw for warmth while ice forms below, conveying extreme cold.
Under a roof 宀, a person huddles in straw (the inner ハ and 一 suggest a figure wrapped in straw) with ice 冫 forming on the ground: it's bitterly cold.
For カン, imagine a can of hot soup warming you up on a cold day: can -> カン, and the warmth fights the cold.
cold (e.g. weather)
midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
cold; coldness; chilliness
cold; coldness; cold air
chill; the shivers; shivering fit
chilly; unpleasantly cold
protection against the cold
freezing weather; cold weather
cold and heat; (degree of) temperature
extreme cold; intense cold; coldest season; midwinter
cold wave
chill; shakes; ague
resistance to cold
cold color; cold colour
mid-winter; cold season
wintry sky; cold weather (in winter); wintry weather
cold front
cold wind
intense cold
poor village; desolate village; lonely village; remote village