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加热

jiā rè

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 加熱

加热 (jiā rè) means "to heat". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 加热 means

1. to heat

The characters in 加热

• 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
• 热rèto warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather)

Example sentences

• 如果你加热冰它就会融化。
  Rúguǒ nǐ jiārè bīng tā jiù huì rónghuà.
  If you heat ice, it melts.
• 当水被加热时，水汽蒸发。
  Dāng shuǐ bèi jiārè shí, shuǐqì zhēngfā.
  Water evaporates when it is heated.
• 加热器发出美丽的橙色光芒。
  The heater is aglow with a beautiful orange color.
• 把水加热不改变它的化学成分。
  Bǎ shuǐ jiārè bù gǎibiàn tā de huàxuéchéngfèn.
  Heating water does not change its chemical composition.
• 用本生灯加热钾，火焰就会呈现淡紫色。
  Potassium, heated with a Bunsen burner, gives the flame a lilac color.
• 现在是 2025 年 8 月 3 日，露露岛。晚餐后，阳光下嫩绿的无花果，昨天腌制的甜醋，还有重新加热的阿尔弗雷多义面，我坐在阳台上，望着那棵针叶树。楼下静谧无声，街道空无一车，一片悠闲。我的冰镇青柠水在阳光下闪闪发光。最近，我常和那位法丹混血的 UFO 研究专家麦可聊天。我们谈论内心深处的事情：智慧型装置的迷醉，以及思维的衰退。他说，咖啡馆已经不再是咖啡馆了。人们忘记如何观察、如何驻足停留。我跟他讲起在日本的亚瑟，他会像僧侣凝视虚空一样，对着空白的墙壁发呆。最近，我让机器像诗人一样说话，它们真的做到了。它们模仿伊莉莎白时代的诗歌，以及塔加洛语民谣中那古老而忧伤的韵律。我沿着通往蒂姆霍顿咖啡店的小路采摘黑莓。我像个孩子似的喊道：「莫拉！」我的朋友莫拉，她血液里流着安地斯山脉的薄雾，她会笑的。今天，我买了黄柠檬。我本来想买青柠，但黄柠檬也可以。/ 黑莓的清晨 / 指尖残留无花果的痕迹 / 街道依然沉睡
  It's Lulu Island, 3 August 2025. After supper—green figs tender with sunlight, sweet vinegar from yesterday’s pickled jar, and reheated Alfredo—I sat on the balcony and watched the conifer. Stillness below, a street without cars, without haste. My lime water, iced, caught the light. Michael, the Franco-Danish ufologist, has been in my conversations lately. We speak of inner things: the trance of smart devices, the mind’s eye dwindling. He says cafés aren’t cafés anymore. People forget how to look, how to linger. I tell him of Arthur in Japan—how he'd stare into blank walls like a monk gazing at emptiness. Lately I ask machines to speak like poets, and they do. They mimic Elizabethan verses and the old wistful lilt of Tagalog ballads. I pick blackberries along the path to Tim Hortons. "¡Moras!" I shout like a child. My friend Mora, whose blood flows with Andes mist, would smile. Today, I bought lemons. I meant limes, but lemons are all right. / blackberry morning— / a fig's ghost on my fingers / and the street still sleeps

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