also: さぶ
cold; brr
Used as an exclamation when feeling cold, or as a noun meaning coldness. The interjection use is common in casual speech.
Brr! It's really chilly today.
I can't stand the morning cold.
cold · lame; unfunny; dull
chill; shivers; shivering fit
wintry sky; cold winter weather
bleak; chilly; dreary
wintry; very cold-looking · bleak; desolate; empty
coldness; the cold; degree of cold
night cold; chill of night; cold night
morning cold; morning chill
autumnal chill; touch of cold in the air
chill; chilliness
cold at the end of autumn when dew turns to frost
cold; chilly · poor; unsatisfactory; inadequate
sensitive to cold; person who feels the cold easily
feel cold; complain about the cold
unseasonably cool weather during the rainy season
Standard kanji spelling for the reading さむ.
Archaic or dialectal reading; rarely used in modern standard Japanese.
Derived from the adjective 寒い (さむい). The reading さぶ is an older form, now mostly dialectal or archaic.