Kanji 氏 family name, surname, clan 度 degrees, occurrence, time Related words 摂せっ 氏し 温おん 度ど 摂氏温度 refers to Celsius temperature, the more common scale in Japan and most of the world, while 華氏温度 specifically means Fahrenheit.
温おん 度ど 温度 is the general term for temperature, without specifying a scale. 華氏温度 explicitly indicates the Fahrenheit scale.
Written forms 華か 氏し 温おん 度ど
Standard kanji spelling for Fahrenheit temperature.
カ 氏し 温おん 度ど
Variant spelling using katakana カ for the first character; less common but seen in some contexts.
カしおんど
Etymology Compound of 華氏 (Fahrenheit, from the Chinese-derived reading of the name) and 温度 (temperature). The term is a direct translation of 'Fahrenheit temperature'.
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