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HSK
to heat
HSK 5
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  *熱* | 熱* | *熱
to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent
HSK 1
uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat
Rift Valley fever (RVF)
postnatal fever / puerperal fever / childbed fever
psittacosis / ornithosis / parrot fever
zealotry / fanatical / feverish
HSK 7-9
to have a high temperature / feverish / unable to think calmly / to emit heat
HSK 7-9
one-sided enthusiasm (abbr. for 剃頭挑子一頭熱|剃头挑子一头热)
affectionate; intimate; warmhearted / to show affection for / (coll.) to get intimate with sb
HSK 7-9
deep water and scorching fire / abyss of suffering (idiom)
fiery / burning / fervent / ardent / passionate
HSK 7-9
blistering hot / sizzling hot (weather)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to be on very good terms with each other / to hit it off with sb / to be passionately in love with each other / to carry on intimately with / (of trading, conflict etc) to be in full swing
strike the iron while it's hot (idiom)
tipsy and merry (idiom)
lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom) / fig. arrogance of the powerful / a mighty figure no-one dares approach / hot (exciting or in favor)
burning hot; scorching
HSK 7-9
great heat / very popular
heating (for a building) / to supply heating
leptospirosis
heated / sunstroke
low-grade fever (37.3–38°C)
gold rush
dengue fever / Singapore hemorrhagic fever
to covet / envious
heat absorption
geothermal heat
spotted fever
sultry / sultriness / hot and stuffy / stifling hot
hot (summer) weather
electric heat tracing; steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc)
red-hot / glowing / blazing / (fig.) passionate
to dissipate heat
to transmit heat
hemorrhagic fever
recurring fever
anthrax
craze for learning English
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
undulant fever / brucellosis
hot flush
residual heat; surplus heat; waste heat / (fig.) capacity of retirees to continue to work
(dialect) bustling; lively
latent heat
heartburn / pyrosis
white heat / incandescence
to heat up by itself; (attributive) self-heating (esp. of meal kits heated with a water-activated pack)
hay fever
to reduce a fever
decay heat
a fever
dengue fever
waste heat
now hot, now cold / (of one's mood, affection etc) to alternate
to generate heat
hay fever
nuclear heat
to relieve fever
torrid heat
heat resistant / fireproof
to insulate thermally / insulating (material, effect etc)
to alleviate fever (medicine) / to clear internal heat (Chinese medicine)
while it's still hot
to preheat / (fig.) to warm up; to prepare for
rheumatic fever
sandfly fever
dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)
to raise prices by speculation / to hype
to heat evenly (e.g. in smelting metal)
to trend / to get popular quickly / sudden heat wave (weather)
canine distemper (mammalian disease caused by Canine morbillivirus)
to conserve heat
extremely hot (weather) / blazing (sun) / (fig.) burning (enthusiasm)
scarlet fever
to know whether others are cold or hot (idiom) / to be very considerate
too hot / (fig.) (economics) overheated / (physics) to superheat
latent heat of evaporation
slow to heat up / (fig.) (of a person) reserved; introverted; slow to develop relationships; (of a product etc) to take time to become popular; (sports) slow to reach peak performance
cultural fever / cultural craze
to produce heat (to warm up a room etc)
chikungunya fever
trench fever
tepid / to warm up (food etc)
to insulate thermally / (physics) adiabatic
specific heat
electrical heating
remittent fever


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