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熱

rè

hot

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

Components
灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

埶 sound component

埶  Sound component

yì

  

art, skill

Evolution

熱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
熱 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
熱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

热 (熱) 

rè

hot; heat; fever; restless; zeal; to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); fervent

Most common words with 熱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

热

to warm up

热情

cordial

热烈

ardent

热线

hotline (communications link)

热爱

to adore

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

爇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.nat (or *C.ŋet?)

nyet

rè

hot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 63.3029% of movies

613th most common character in movies

606th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

热

Unicode

U+71B1

Shuowen

“熱，溫也。从火，埶聲。”


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