熱

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

热

🇨🇳

heat

HSK 10 N2

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Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 埶 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (熱)

灬 fire (bottom)+ 埶 art =

熱 heat

灬 Meaning component

biāo fire (bottom)

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

埶 Phonetic component

yì art

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Simplified (热)

灬 fire (bottom)+ 执 hold in hand =

热 hot

灬 Meaning component

biāo fire (bottom)

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

执 Simplified component

zhí hold in hand

Shorthand for the 埶 component in the traditional character 熱.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

熱

Regular

Modern

Chinese

热 / 熱 [rè]

to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent

Japanese

熱ねつ同音

noun

heat
fever; temperature
zeal; passion; enthusiasm; mania; craze; rage

熱ねち同音

noun archaic fever

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (3)

熱によって氷は水に変わる。

Heat turns ice into water.

１０２゜Ｆの熱があります。

I have a fever of 102 degrees.

彼は学生運動熱に浮かされている。

He is being carried away by a student movement.

CHINESE WORDS (200)

hotline (communications link)

热爱 [rè'ài] #3,937

to love ardently

热闹 [rènao] #7,634

bustling with noise and excitement