熱

See also: 热

Translingual

simpl.		热
trad.		熱

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 埶 + semantic 灬 (“fire”)

Variant: 𤍠 (U+24360); The left-top part appears as 幸 instead of 坴.

Han character

熱 (radical 86 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土戈火 (GIF), four-corner 4533₁)

1. hot
2. heat
3. fever
4. restless
5. zeal

See also

• 熟

References

• KangXi: page 681, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19360
• Dae Jaweon: page 1092, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2230, character 10
• Unihan data for U+71B1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

熱 (Yale yit6)

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Japanese

Kanji

熱

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ねつ (netsu), ぜつ (zetsu), ねち (nechi)
• Kun: あつい (熱い, atsui)

Compounds

• 熱愛
• 熱意
• 熱気
• 熱い
• 熱狂
• 熱血
• 熱戦
• 熱帯
• 熱中
• 熱風
• 熱量
• 熱烈
• 灼熱
• 熱する
• 熱燗 (あつかん, atsukan)

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Korean

Hanja

熱 (yeol) (hangeul 열, revised yeol, McCune-Reischauer yŏl, Yale yel)

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Mandarin

Adjective

熱 (traditional, Pinyin rè, simplified 热)

1. hot; heat; fever; restless; zeal

Compounds

• 灼熱

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Middle Chinese

Han character

熱 (*njiɛt)

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Vietnamese

Han character

熱 (nhiệt, nhét, nhẹt)