温
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warm; lukewarm; to warm up; (bound form) temperature; (bound form) mild; soft; tender; to review (a lesson etc); (TCM) fever; epidemic; pestilence (old variant of 瘟[wen1])
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Dict coverage rank #483 U+6E29
How 温 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 昷 (phonetic)
components: 氵 昷
How to remember it
temperature · Heisig RSH #1138
水 water + sun + dish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 昷
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 昷 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昷 sound component | — | warm, a warm meal |
| 瘟 | wēn | epidemic, plague, pestilence |
| 腽 | wà | fat, blubber |
| 愠 | yùn | angry, indignant; resentful, sulking |
| 缊 | yūn | tangled hemp, raveled silk; vague, confused |
| 辒 | wēn | hearse |
| 媪 | ǎo | old woman; lower-class woman |
| 榅 | wēn | pillar; conifer; Cryptomeria |
| 氲 | yūn | prosperity; the breath of life; the spirit of harmony |
| 豱 | wēn | short-snouted pig |
| 韫 | yùn | to contain; to hide, to conceal |
Words containing 温
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不温不火 | bù wēn bù huǒ | (of sales, TV show ratings etc) lukewarm; moderate; so-so; (of a person) calm; unruffled |
| 热力学温度 | rè lì xué wēn dù | thermodynamic temperature (temperature above absolute zero) |
| 变温动物 | biàn wēn dòng wù | poikilotherm (cold-blooded animal) |
| 温得和克 | Wēn dé hé kè | Windhoek, capital of Namibia |
| 温江区 | Wēn jiāng Qū | Wenjiang, a district of Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 温州市 | Wēn zhōu Shì | Wenzhou, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3] |
| 温特图尔 | Wēn tè tú ěr | Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 热力学温标 | rè lì xué wēn biāo | thermodynamic temperature scale (in degrees Kelvin, measured above absolute zero) |
| 温和性 | wēn hé xìng | tenderness |
| 量体温 | liáng tǐ wēn | to take sb's temperature |
| 温县 | Wēn Xiàn | Wen County or Wenxian, a county in Jiaozuo City 焦作市[Jiao1 zuo4 Shi4], Henan |
| 水温 | shuǐ wēn | water temperature |
| 海洋温差发电 | hǎi yáng wēn chā fā diàn | ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) |
| 温布尔登网球公开赛 | Wēn bù ěr dēng Wǎng qiú Gōng kāi sài | Wimbledon Championships (tennis) |
| 水温表 | shuǐ wēn biǎo | engine temperature gauge; coolant temperature gauge |
| 温文尔雅 | wēn wén ěr yǎ | cultured and refined (idiom); gentle and cultivated |
| 温切斯特 | Wēn qiē sī tè | Winchester (town in south England, capital of former kingdom of Wessex) |
| 气温 | qì wēn | air temperature |
| 对比温度 | duì bǐ wēn dù | (thermodynamics) reduced temperature (used to compare fluids at different temperatures rel… |
| 体温 | tǐ wēn | (body) temperature |