温
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warm; lukewarm; to warm up; (bound form) temperature; (bound form) mild; soft; tender; to review (a lesson etc); (TCM) fever; epidemic; pestilence (old variant of 瘟[wen1])
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- Strokes
- 12
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- 水 +9
- Structure
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- Traditional
- 温
- Common rank
- #483
- Unicode
- U+6E29
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 温 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 昷 sound
Components 氵 昷
How to remember it
temperature · Heisig RSH #1138
水 water + sun + dish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 温
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不温不火 | (of sales, TV show ratings etc) lukewarm; moderate; so-so; (of a person) calm; unruffled | |
| 热力学温度 | thermodynamic temperature (temperature above absolute zero) | |
| 变温动物 | poikilotherm (cold-blooded animal) | |
| 温得和克 | Windhoek, capital of Namibia | |
| 温江区 | Wenjiang, a district of Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 温州市 | Wenzhou, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3] | |
| 温特图尔 | Winterthur, Switzerland | |
| 热力学温标 | thermodynamic temperature scale (in degrees Kelvin, measured above absolute zero) | |
| 温和性 | tenderness | |
| 量体温 | to take sb's temperature | |
| 温县 | Wen County or Wenxian, a county in Jiaozuo City 焦作市[Jiao1 zuo4 Shi4], Henan | |
| 水温 | water temperature | |
| 海洋温差发电 | ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) | |
| 温布尔登网球公开赛 | Wimbledon Championships (tennis) | |
| 水温表 | engine temperature gauge; coolant temperature gauge | |
| 温文尔雅 | cultured and refined (idiom); gentle and cultivated | |
| 温切斯特 | Winchester (town in south England, capital of former kingdom of Wessex) | |
| 气温 | air temperature | |
| 对比温度 | (thermodynamics) reduced temperature (used to compare fluids at different temperatures rel… | |
| 体温 | (body) temperature |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 昷 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昷 sound part | — | warm, a warm meal |
| 瘟 | epidemic, plague, pestilence | |
| 腽 | fat, blubber | |
| 愠 | angry, indignant; resentful, sulking | |
| 缊 | tangled hemp, raveled silk; vague, confused | |
| 辒 | hearse | |
| 媪 | old woman; lower-class woman | |
| 榅 | pillar; conifer; Cryptomeria | |
| 氲 | prosperity; the breath of life; the spirit of harmony | |
| 豱 | short-snouted pig | |
| 韫 | to contain; to hide, to conceal |