Meaning & readings
warm
Origin
The character 温 combines water (氵) on the left, which is a classifier showing this kanji deals with liquid or moisture, with a sound hint component (昷) on the right that indicates the pronunciation. The connection between water and warmth makes sense because warm water was an important concept in daily life—think of heated water for bathing or cooking. Over time, the character came to mean "warm" in general, not just warm water, though the water component remains as a reminder of its origins.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 昷
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #838 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06E29