also: かんきょう
cold winter dawn
Poetic term for a chilly early morning in winter. Used in literary or evocative contexts rather than everyday speech.
The stars shone clearly in the cold winter dawn sky.
His haiku captures the stillness of a cold winter dawn.
Standard kanji form; the reading かんぎょう is the modern pronunciation.
Obsolete reading; it is out-dated or obsolete kana usage.
Compound of 寒 (cold) and 暁 (dawn). The reading かんぎょう is the standard on'yomi combination; the variant かんきょう reflects an older or dialectal reading of 暁.