暑 (shǔ) — heat, hot weather; summer

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暑 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)

暑＝日＋者

ㄕㄨˇ · shǔ

noun — heat, hot weather; summer

字源 FORM — what the parts do

日義the sunthe source of the heat

者聲zhě — gives the sounda heap of stuff over a mouth — used now as "the one who"

IF≠zhě → shǔ — the reading jumped far from the donor, an irregular shift

The sun (日) over 者 zhě for the sound — a reading that drifted hard to shǔ. The sun beating down is heat (熱也): 暑熱、酷暑. The season of that heat is summer — 暑假, the summer break. And the heat striking a person down: 中暑, heatstroke.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

太陽（日）壓在頭頂，曬得人發昏——這就是暑。

The sun (日) bears straight down overhead, beating the heat into you — that is summer's blaze.

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意 · Meanings

(本義)暑熱、酷暑— heat, hot weather常用

→暑假、暑期— summer (the hot season)常用

⇒中暑— heatstroke

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension