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Kanji Detail for 暑 - "hot, summer"

暑

  • Meaning

    暑 means "hot, summer."

    1. Hot - High temperature; warm weather.

    2. Summer - The hot season; time of heat.

    3. Sultry - Oppressively warm and humid.

  • Words using 暑

    • 暑さ あつさ Listen heat (of the weather); hotness
    • 猛暑 もうしょ Listen heat wave; fierce heat
    • 残暑 ざんしょ Listen late summer heat; lingering summer heat
    • 避暑 ひしょ Listen escaping the summer heat; going somewhere cooler during the summer; summering
    • 暑い あつい Listen hot; warm; sultry
    • 蒸し暑い むしあつい Listen humid; sultry
    • 暑中見舞 しょちゅうみまい Listen summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season

  • Tattoo check: 暑

    • Verified meaning: hot, summer
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あつ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 暑

    Given names 暑(あつ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    sultry; hot; summer heat

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    hot

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    heat; hot weather; summer heat

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    hot; heat; summer

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Hot. Midsummer is called 暑.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sho(ショ) ショ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    atsu.i(あつ-い) あつ-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    日 (hi・hihen・nichi・nichihen)

  • Related Keywords

    hot summer sultry season blazing boiling heat humid scorching sizzling sweltering temperature thermal warm sweat parched oppressive

Sentences including 暑

  • What a hot day it is !

  • It is unbearably hot this summer.

  • He doesn't like the heat of the summer.

  • It's awfully hot today.

  • It was a very , very hot night.

  • How hot it is !

  • I don't like studying in this heat.

  • It's simply too hot to do anything today.

  • The weather stayed hot for two weeks.

  • Japan is hot and sticky in summer.

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