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熱
简 热 · 繁 熱Mandarin · pinyin rè
Meanings
- to warm up
- to heat up
- hot (of weather)
- heat
- fervent
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- hot; heated; having a high temperature
- hot (of the weather)
- to heat up; to warm up
- heat; hotness; warmness; high temperature
- (literary) hot weather; summer heat
- ardent; warmhearted; enthusiastic
- fever; febrility; pyrexia
- craze; fad
- popular; fashionable; in vogue
- noisy; lively
- (literary) worried; anxious; distraught
- envious
- (traditional Chinese medicine) heaty
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to put cooking oil in the pan to heat it (to make it convenient to stir-fry)
- (Mainland China Hokkien) deeply immersed; highly enthusiastic (into something)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) friendly; warm; intimate (with someone)
- a surname
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