暑

Meaning

暑 centers on oppressive, moisture-laden heat: the kind of sultry, sweltering weather that defines summer. The idea of summer heat is the natural context for this intense, sticky warmth.

• 暑いあつい
  N5

  hot; warm; sultry; heated

• 猛暑もうしょ

  heat wave; fierce heat

• 蒸し暑いむしあつい
  N3

  humid; sultry

• 残暑ざんしょ
  N1

  late summer heat; lingering summer heat

• 暑中しょちゅう

  height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

• 酷暑こくしょ

  intense heat; severe heat

• 暑苦しいあつくるしい
  N1

  sultry; sweltering; stuffy; oppressively hot

• 避暑ひしょ
  N1

  escaping the summer heat; going somewhere cooler during the summer; summering

• 暑がりあつがり

  being sensitive to the heat; person who is sensitive to the heat

• 暑気しょき

  summer heat; hot weather

• 暑熱しょねつ

  heat of summer

• 暑さあつさ
  N1

  heat (of the weather); hotness

• 暑中見舞しょちゅうみまい
  N1

  summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season

• 炎暑えんしょ

  heat wave; intense heat

• 猛暑日もうしょび
  N3

  day on which the temperature rises above 35°C; extremely hot day

• お暑うございますおあつうございます

  it is very warm

• クソ暑いくそあつい

  extremely hot

• 処暑しょしょ

  "limit of heat" solar term (approx. August 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down)

• 劇暑げきしょ

  severe heat; intense heat; oppressive heat

• 厳しい暑さきびしいあつさ

  intense heat

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