熱 — heat, temperature, fever

あつい熱 heat

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes health

U+71B1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #700 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1634 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

heat
temperature
fever
mania
passion

word

あつ atsu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

熱(あつ) い atsui hot (things)

ねつ netsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

熱(ねつ) netsu heat 熱(ねつ) 意(い) netsui enthusiasm 加(か) 熱(ねつ) kanetsu heating 発(はつ) 熱(ねつ) hatsunetsu fever 情(じょう) 熱(ねつ) jounetsu passion 断(だん) 熱(ねつ) dannetsu heat insulation

ねっ ne Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

熱(ねっ) 心(しん) nesshin enthusiastic 熱(ねっ) 帯(たい) nettai tropics 熱(ねっ) 中(ちゅう) necchuu absorption 熱(ねっ) 気(き) nekki heat 熱(ねっ) 狂(きょう) nekkyou frenzy

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

埶 plant

灬 fire dots

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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