🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

热

Pronunciation / Transliteration: rè

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Heat/hiːt/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"夏天阳光的热量可能很强。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being hot; high temperature.

    "The heat from the sun can be intense during summer."
As verb
  1. 1

    To make something warm or hot.

    "Please heat the soup before serving."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English noun 'hǣtu' and verb 'hǣtan', originating from Proto-Germanic '*haitidō', meaning warmth or hotness. Over centuries, the term evolved to encompass both thermal energy and intense emotional or environmental states.

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