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暑

shǔ

HSK 4 Character

What 暑 means

1. heat
2. hot weather
3. summer heat

Example sentences

• 汤姆中暑了。
  Tāngmǔ zhòngshǔ le.
  Tom had a heat stroke.
• 暑假过得如何？
  How was your summer vacation?
• 暑假？那是什么？
  Holidays? What are they?
• 离放暑假还有五天。
  We have five days to go before the summer vacation.
• 你什幺时候放暑假？
  When are you going on summer vacation?
• 我在暑假里早晨学习。
  Wǒ zài shǔjià lǐ zǎochén xuéxí.
  I studied in the morning during the summer vacation.

Words starting with 暑

• 暑假shǔ jiàsummer vacation
• 暑期shǔ qīsummer vacation time
• 暑促shǔ cùsummer promotion (sale)
• 暑天shǔ tiānhot (summer) day
• 暑气shǔ qì(summer) heat
• 暑温shǔ wēnsummer-warm disease (TCM)
• 暑热shǔ rèhot (summer) weather
• 暑期学校shǔ qī xué xiàosummer school
• 暑瘟shǔ wēntropical disease; summertime disease

Words containing 暑

• 放暑假fàng shǔ jiàto be on summer vacation
• 酷暑kù shǔintense heat; extremely hot weather
• 中暑zhòng shǔto suffer heat exhaustion; sunstroke; heatstroke
• 避暑bì shǔto be away for the summer holidays; to spend a holiday at a summer resort…
• 避暑山庄bì shǔ shān zhuāngmountain resort; Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site
• 消暑xiāo shǔto spend a summer holiday; to beat the summer heat
• 冒暑mào shǔheat stroke (TCM)
• 去暑qù shǔto beat the summer heat
• 受暑shòu shǔto suffer heatstroke; to suffer heat exhaustion
• 大暑Dà shǔDashu or Great Heat, 12th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 23rd July-6th August
• 小暑Xiǎo shǔXiaoshu or Lesser Heat, 11th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 7th-22nd July
• 处暑Chǔ shǔChushu or End of Heat, 14th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 23rd August-7th September
• 解暑jiě shǔto beat the summer heat
• 防暑降温fáng shǔ jiàng wēnto prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature
• 祛暑qū shǔto beat the summer heat

Characters built on 者

These share the phonetic component 者 (zhě), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 署shǔoffice; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 著zhùto make known; to show; to prove
• 诸zhūall; various
• 赌dǔto bet; to gamble
• 绪xùbeginnings; clues; mental state
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…

Characters that look like 暑

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 着zheaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
• 署shǔoffice; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 著zhùto make known; to show; to prove
• 鲁lǔ(bound form) crass; stupid; rude
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 菁jīngleek flower; lush; luxuriant

Sounds the same

Read shǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 属category; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 鼠(bound form) rat; mouse
• 署office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 蜀short name for Sichuan 四川; one of the Three Kingdoms 三国
• 数to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
• 薯potato; yam
• 黍broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
• 曙(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 糬used in 麻糬
• 癙illness caused by worry
• 钃metal
• 鼡variant of 鼠