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Mythic Mandarin

炽热 (chì rè): meaning and stroke order

炽热 (chì rè) means red-hot, glowing, blazing, (fig.) passionate.

炽热

Simplified
炽热
Traditional
熾熱
Pinyin
chì rè

Stroke order of 炽热

炽

  • chì to burn; to blaze
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 熾

Stroke by stroke

热

  • rè to warm up; to heat up
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 熱

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 炽热

  1. chì rè Traditional 熾熱
    • red-hot
    • glowing
    • blazing
    • (fig.) passionate

Radicals of the characters

炽
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 9 strokes · 火 on the left, 只 on the right
热
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 10 strokes · 执 on top, 灬 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

炽热 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 他张开双臂，想去抱住它，可是炽热的光芒让他口渴难忍，喉咙像着火了一样。

    tā zhāngkāi shuāngbì xiǎng qù bào zhù tā kěshì chìrè de guāngmáng ràng tā kǒukě nánrěn hóulong xiàng zháohuǒ le yíyàng

    He opened his arms to embrace it, but the scorching light gave him an unbearable thirst, and his throat felt as if it were on fire.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 炽热

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).