cold / poor / to tremble

= + + + + : After the nuclear war the nuclear winter (寒) followed, and now the well (井) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) is frozen (寒). Hamlet (h) first puts a graduation cap (宀) over the well to protect it from radioactive fallout, then he breaks the ice by throwing a big eightball (八) into the well. Finally he is able to suck up some fresh water using a flute (一), although he discovers that under the ice beautiful blossoms (⺀) have grown.

寒 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

= + 丿 + : Joan of Arc (ji) is digging a well (井) inside the engine ((e)ng3). At first she was doing it by hand, but then she hooked up a capacitor (二) to a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨), which dig for her using the electrical energy.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).

Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petals form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

Characters with 寒 as component

寒 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 寒

bitter cold / severe winter
to enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom) / to pamper
the north frigid zone
affected by cold / to catch cold
lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago

Sentences with 寒

寒 currently does not appear in any sentence.