热
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 熱
Hot — of weather, food, drink or anything that gives off heat. 今天很热 'it is hot today'; 热水 'hot water', 热茶 'hot tea'. Its opposite is 冷 'cold'. Spicy 'hot' is a different word, 辣.
Nóng: nói về thời tiết, đồ ăn thức uống hay bất cứ vật gì có nhiệt độ cao. 今天很热 (hôm nay trời rất nóng); 热水 (nước nóng), 热茶 (trà nóng). Trái nghĩa là 冷 (lạnh).
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “热” mean?
Hot — of weather, food, drink or anything that gives off heat. 今天很热 'it is hot today'; 热水 'hot water', 热茶 'hot tea'. Its opposite is 冷 'cold'. Spicy 'hot' is a different word, 辣.
Is “热” formal or informal?
热 is generally neutral.