暑 – sultry, hot, summer heat

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The kanji 暑 means sultry, hot, summer heat. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショ (sho); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あつ.い (atsui). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 日 (no. 72).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ショ	sho
Kun’yomi	あつ.い	atsui

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 日 (Kangxi radical 72). Components: 日・老.

Words using 暑

暑いあついhot蒸し暑いむしあついhumid

Example sentences

この夏最高の暑さだ。

It is the hottest this summer.

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その晩はとてもむし暑かった。

It was very sultry that night.

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Kanji with the same radical

日時明昨早映景旧易春暴普昇星曜暮

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.