Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
heat, temperature, fever, mania, passion
Kun:
あつ.い
On:
ネツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
700 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 熱 【ネツ】 heat, fever, temperature, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, mania, craze, rage
  • 熱意 【ネツイ】 zeal, enthusiasm, ardor, ardour
  • 発熱 【ハツネツ】 generation of heat, (attack of) fever, pyrexia
  • 解熱 【ゲネツ】 lowering a fever, alleviation of fever

Kun reading compounds

  • 熱い 【あつい】 hot (to the touch), passionate (feelings, etc.), ardent, hot (e.g. gaze), hot (e.g. temper), zealous, enthusiastic, fired up, intense, severe, extreme, hot (topic), of interest
  • 熱い暗黒物質 【あついあんこくぶっしつ】 hot dark matter

Readings

Japanese names:
あた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
re4
Korean:
yeol

Spanish

  • calor
  • fiebre
  • pasión
  • caliente

Portuguese

  • calor
  • temperatura
  • febre
  • mania
  • paixão

French

  • chaleur
  • fièvre
  • température
  • manie
  • passion
490 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
589 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
560 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
629 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2797 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
300 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
720 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2408 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
645 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
655 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
866 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1283 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3555 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1834 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2495 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1530 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19360 Morohashi
2866 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3473 New Nelson (John Haig)
1516 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1634 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
627 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1440 2001 Kanji
4d11.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-11-4 SKIP code
4433.1 Four corner code
4533.1 Four corner code
1-39-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
71b1 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
thunder, lightning bolt
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1491 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雷 【カミナリ】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雨 【ライウ】 thunderstorm
  • 機雷 【キライ】 (sea) mine
  • 界雷 【カイライ】 frontal thunderstorm

Kun reading compounds

  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雲 【らいうん】 thundercloud
  • 水雷 【みずがみなり】 thunder accompanied by rain, lightning that does not start a fire
  • 日雷 【ひがみなり】 thunder on a clear day, lightning that starts a fire
  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger
  • 雷雲 【らいうん】 thundercloud
  • 雷 【かみなり】 lightning, thunder, thunderbolt, god of thunder, god of lightning, anger, fit of anger

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lei2
Korean:
roe

Spanish

  • trueno
  • relámpago
  • rayo

Portuguese

  • trovão
  • raio

French

  • tonnerre
  • foudre
1888 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1524 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5049 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1204 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1889 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2026 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
952 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
982 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
843 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1863 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3466 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1785 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2432 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
432 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42245 Morohashi
2791 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6525 New Nelson (John Haig)
425 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
454 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1685 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3176 2001 Kanji
8d5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-5 SKIP code
1060.1 Four corner code
1060.3 Four corner code
1-45-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96f7 Unicode hex code