Meaning & readings
warmth
On’yomi ダン、ノン
Kun’yomi あたた.か、あたた.かい、あたた.まる、あたた.める
Origin
The kanji 暖 combines the radical 日, which means sun or represents heat and light, with the component 爰 on the right, which serves as a sound hint for pronunciation. The sun is naturally associated with warmth and heat, so placing the sun radical next to a sound indicator creates a character that means warmth or to become warm. This makes sense because the sun is the most obvious source of natural heat in everyday experience.
Components
- 日
- 爰
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 72
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1371 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06696