寒い
さむい · samui · JLPT N5 · i-adj
cold (in reference to weather)
🧣 sounds like: SAMe old chilly weather? Ooh-EE, samui!
Samui starts like the English word same and ends in a shivery ooh-ee. It describes cold air or weather only; a cold object you touch is tsumetai. The kanji 寒 has two short strokes at the bottom, traditionally read as ice.