Chinese Character Wiki
热

rè

hot

Simplified form of 熱. 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.

执 simplified component

执  Simplified component

zhí

  

hold in hand

Shorthand for the 埶 component in the traditional character 熱.

Evolution

热 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
热 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
热 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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 热
Freq.
Word
Meaning

热

to warm up

热情

cordial

热烈

ardent

热线

hotline (communications link)

热爱

to adore

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 63.3029% of movies

613th most common character in movies

606th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

熱

Unicode

U+70ED


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