暑shǔ
hot; heat; summer. 12 strokes, radical 日, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin shǔStrokes 12Radical 日Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 暑
Strokes 1–4 write 日, then strokes 5–12 write 者.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 暑 · the stroke-order rules
What 暑 is made of
日 (rì, sun) and 者 (zhě, that which).
日 carries the meaning — sun — and 者 carries the sound.
Words that use 暑
| 暑假 | summer vacation 一年中天气最热时学校放的长假 青年期待暑假去基层做社会调研。The young man looked forward to summer break for grassroots fieldwork. Lesson 334, 黉门考校与夏木荫荫 · 杏坛弦歌与市井温情 · Academic Traditions & The Warmth of Everyday Life |
Characters that share the sound part 者
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 日
All 31 of them, and what the radical means, on the 日 radical page.