# 熱 — Heat

Frequency rank 486 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 千 (Thousand), less common than 像 (Image).

- On’yomi: ねつ
- Kun’yomi: あつ
- Radical: 火 Fire (Kangxi 86)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

Dirt (土) piles on a stool (丸) in a circle (丸) while a fire boils (灬) below — the kiln fires up with intense heat radiating from every surface.

In words:

- 熱い あつい — hot to the touch
- 熱 ねつ — fever
- 熱する ねっする — to heat

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