shǔ
hot
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 暑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
summer vacation | ||
summer vacation time | ||
to prevent sunstroke | ||
sunstroke | ||
heat |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tʰaʔ | syoX | shǔ | heat |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 4.4850% of movies
2397th most common character in movies
2743rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6691 |
Shuowen | “暑，熱也。从日，者聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
