暑
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heat; hot weather; summer heat
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 日 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 暑
- Common rank
- #2,189
- Unicode
- U+6691
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 暑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暑期学校 | summer school | |
| 放暑假 | to be on summer vacation | |
| 防暑降温 | to prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature | |
| 大暑 | Dashu or Great Heat, 12th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 23rd July-6th August | |
| 中暑 | to suffer heat exhaustion; sunstroke; heatstroke | |
| 暑天 | hot (summer) day | |
| 小暑 | Xiaoshu or Lesser Heat, 11th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-22nd July | |
| 暑气 | (summer) heat | |
| 避暑山庄 | mountain resort; Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site | |
| 寒暑假 | winter and summer vacations | |
| 暑热 | hot (summer) weather | |
| 解暑 | to beat the summer heat | |
| 暑期 | summer vacation time | |
| 处暑 | Chushu or End of Heat, 14th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 23rd August-7th September | |
| 受暑 | to suffer heatstroke; to suffer heat exhaustion | |
| 暑假 | summer vacation; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 去暑 | to beat the summer heat | |
| 暑温 | summer-warm disease (TCM) | |
| 消暑 | to spend a summer holiday; to beat the summer heat | |
| 避暑 | to be away for the summer holidays; to spend a holiday at a summer resort; to prevent suns… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 猪 | pig, hog, wild boar | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 署 | bureau, public office; to sign | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 屠 | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre | |
| 煮 | to boil, to cook | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 奢 | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |