暑い（あつい、atsui）
- hot

The Japanese word 暑い （あつい） means "hot" or "warm" in terms of temperature. It describes the condition of being hot, either to the touch or in the surrounding environment.

⚫︎今日は暑い］ですね。 Translation: It's hot today, isn't it? ⚫︎夏は暑く］なります。 Translation: It gets hot in summer. ⚫︎熱くて、窓を開けました。 Translation: It was hot, so I opened the window.

⚫︎You use 暑い to describe the temperature of the weather, a room, or anything that feels hot to the touch. ⚫︎It's an い-adjective, meaning it conjugates like other い-adjectives. ⚫︎You can use it in various forms like 暑い (present affirmative), 暑かった (past affirmative), 暑くない (present negative), etc. ⚫︎When describing the weather, it's common to pair it with time expressions, such as "today" 今日（きょう） or "summer" 夏（なつ）.

⚫︎The word is primarily written in kanji as 暑い. ⚫︎The reading is あつい. ⚫︎The okurigana (the hiragana after the kanji) is always "い".

There aren't many direct synonyms that mean the same thing, but words that are related in meaning include: ⚫︎熱い（あつい） - hot (describes the temperature of something like food or objects) ⚫︎暖かい（あたたかい） - warm

⚫︎寒い（さむい） - cold

夏はとても暑い］です。 ・Translation: Summer is very hot. ・Explanation: This sentence uses 暑い to describe the temperature during the summer season.

部屋が暑い］から、エアコンをつけましょう。 ・Translation: Because the room is hot, let's turn on the air conditioner. ・Explanation: This sentence uses 暑い to explain the reason for turning on the air conditioner.

The kanji 暑 combines the "sun" radical 日（ひ） with 者（しゃ）, which originally represented "person" or "being". The combination implies something that causes people to feel hot. The etymology is derived from the feeling of the heat.