熱 means “heat, fever”

ねつ · netsu

Also: temperature, mania

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あつい

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ネツ

Taught in grade 4 · 15 strokes

The story

Fire (灬) burns beneath the earth. 熱い (atsui) is intense heat: the scorching surface, a burning fever, or passionate enthusiasm. Where 暑 is weather, 熱 is the heat itself.

Used in 熱帯 (nettai, tropics) and 情熱 (jounetsu, passion)

More from Weather & Sky

• 吹 blow
• 虹 rainbow
• 凍 freeze
• 乾 dry
• 湿 humid
• 陽 sunshine
• 影 shadow
• 天 heaven
• 星 star
• 晴 clear weather
• 曇 cloudy
• 降 fall

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.