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暑い (あつい, atsui) Japanese meaning: hot | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N5 › Freq. Frequency Top 2,000 Conjugation 暑い · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 暑あつ い 暑あつ くない Polite 暑あつ いです 暑あつ くないです also 暑あつ くありません Past polite 暑あつ かったです 暑あつ くなかったです also 暑あつ くありませんでした Past 暑あつ かった 暑あつ くなかった Te-form 暑あつ くて 暑あつ くなくて Adverbial 暑あつ く Conditional 暑あつ ければ 暑あつ くなければ Tara conditional 暑あつ かったら 暑あつ くなかったら
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暑あつ
い
です
ね
。
It is really hot today, isn't it?
This room is hot, so let's open a window.
Usage patterns 暑あつ い 日ひ が 続つづ く hot days continue one after another
It's been one hot day after another this week.
〈 物もの 〉 がアツい 〈thing〉 is hot/trending right now
This anime is really hot right now.
暑あつ くてたまらない it's so hot I can't stand it
It's unbearably hot today.
暑あつ い 中なか 〜 despite/in the heat, ...
Thanks for coming even though it's so hot.
Expressions 春はる 暑あつ し summer-like weather in late spring Kanji 暑 sultry, hot, summer heat Related words 暑い is general heat, while 蒸し暑い specifically adds humidity, describing sticky, muggy weather rather than just high temperature.
Opposites cold · lame; unfunny; dull
暑い describes uncomfortably hot weather, the direct opposite of the pleasant coolness of 涼しい.
Don't confuse with 暑い is for ambient heat like weather or a room, while 熱い (same reading, different kanji) is for something hot to the touch such as tea or a stove, and is also the usual kanji for passionate feelings.
署 (read しょ) and 暑い (read あつい, also しょ as an on-reading) look almost identical in kanji but 署 means an office/station while 暑い means 'hot'.
暑い is a homophone meaning hot weather or air temperature, unrelated to 厚い's meaning of thickness or warmth of feeling.
Word family· 9 hot and humid; muggy; sultry
sultry; sweltering; oppressively hot · uncomfortably hot-looking; stuffy-looking
sensitive to heat; person who feels the heat easily
Written forms 暑あつ い Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling for hot weather, hot air, or an uncomfortably warm place.
アツイ Usage <1%
search-only kana form
All-katakana emphatic variant, mainly useful for search and stylistic recognition rather than normal writing.
Etymology A native Japanese adjective あつい conventionally written 暑い for weather and ambient heat. The historical derivation is not specified; distinguish it from the homophone 熱い.
N5
暑い describes uncomfortably hot weather or air, while 暖かい describes mild, pleasant warmth.
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N1
heat (of the weather); hotness
feel hot; complain of the heat; swelter
Show 4 more extremely hot; damn hot
heat of the day; hottest part of the day
heat exhaustion; heatstroke; suffering from the heat
relief from the heat; beating the heat
