Refers to heated water, often contrasted with 水 (cold water). Used in cooking, bathing, and general contexts.
See also: 水 (みず)
Let's boil some hot water and make coffee.
Please take this medicine with hot water.
Often refers to a hot bath at home, a public bath (銭湯), or a hot spring (温泉). The honorific prefix お is frequently added.
I'm tired, so I want to soak in a hot bath for a while.
The hot spring at this inn feels really good.
Technical use in metalworking and foundry contexts. Not an everyday meaning.
Molten iron flows out from the blast furnace.
I poured hot water into the instant noodles and waited three minutes.
I soaked in the warm bath water at the inn to relieve my tiredness.
My mother checked the water temperature with her hand before putting the child in.
After boiling the pasta, drain the water and mix it with the sauce.
plain hot water; boiled water
hot-water bottle
steam from hot water; hot spring steam
boiled tofu; hot tofu
source of a hot spring
tea ceremony; chanoyu
hot and cold water · something abundant; something plentiful
yuba; tofu skin; dried beancurd
teacup; Japanese-style teacup
double boiling; bain-marie; heating in a hot-water bath
public bathhouse; bathhouse · bath building (in a shrine or temple)
boiling water; scalding water
water heater; water boiler
after a bath; post-bath · bath towel; post-bath yukata
long bath; soaking for a long time
parboil; scald
indoor hot-spring bath
hot-spring mineral deposits; flowers of sulphur; geyserite; sinter
chill after a bath
soaking fabric in lukewarm water; desizing; moistening with steam · blanching; parboiling
soba cooking water; water from boiling soba
kettle; teakettle
quantity of hot spring water
bath; bathing; hot spring cure
bathtub · rental boat with a bathtub (Edo period)
female bath attendant; woman who assists bathers at hot springs · bathhouse prostitute