Example sentences

hǎo好rè热a啊。

It's so hot.

shuǐ水tài太rè热le了。

The water is too hot.

The story behind the character

热

The traditional 熱 has fire (火) at the bottom. Where there's fire, there's heat. Xu Shen wrote 热, 温也: "warm." Simple.

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