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炎热

yán rè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 炎熱

炎热 (yán rè) means "blistering hot". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 炎热 means

1. blistering hot
2. sizzling hot (weather)

The characters in 炎热

• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis
• 热rèto warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather)

Example sentences

• 西西里的夏天炎热。
  Xīxīlǐ de xiàtiān yánrè.
  Sicily is hot in summer.
• 这里夏天非常炎热。
  It is very hot here in summer.
• 今天下午非常炎热。
  It was very hot this afternoon.
• 我不在乎炎热的天气。
  Wǒ bù zàihu yánrè de tiānqì.
  I don't mind hot weather.
• 我爸爸不喜欢夏天炎热的天气。
  Wǒ bàba bù xǐhuan xiàtiān yánrè de tiānqì.
  My father does not like the heat of summer.
• 炎热潮湿的天气使我们变得懒散。
  Yánrè cháoshī de tiānqì shǐ wǒmen biànde lǎnsǎn.
  Hot and humid weather makes us lazy.

Where 炎热 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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