高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高温
gāowēn
high temperature; hot weather
Characters in this word
温 wēn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 昷 warm, a warm meal
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 今天有高温。 Jīntiān yǒu gāowēn. There is a high temperature today.
- 高温很难受。 Gāowēn hěn nánshòu. Hot weather feels very uncomfortable.
- 高温天气来了。 Gāowēn tiānqì lái le. Hot weather has arrived.