暑い

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 今日は暑いですね。▶ —
   It's hot today, isn't it.
2. 熱いお茶をください。▶ —
   Please give me hot tea.

Collocations

Mnemonic

あつい — 暑い・熱い, Yamato. An i-adjective. The same split Korean makes between 'deopda (weather) / tteugeopda (object)' lives in Japanese as a kanji split — 暑い: hot weather. 今日は暑い (today is hot). 熱い: hot object. 熱いお茶 (hot tea). Two kanji split across one sound, gathered under a single slug, atsui-hot. There is a third relative — 厚い atsui (thick), in a separate slug atsui-thick. The single sound atsui splits into three kanji (暑 · 熱 · 厚) — a quick snapshot of how Japanese homophones work. With its pair 寒い samui-cold, atsui marks the two ends of season and temperature.

Quick check

1. Which kanji fits "the ramen is hot"?

   • 熱い (object hot — correct)
   • 暑い (weather only)
   • 厚い (thick — different word)
   • 篤い (devoted — N1)