白熱

See also: 白热

Chinese

white; empty; blank
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
 
heat; to heat up; fervent
heat; to heat up; fervent; hot (of weather); warm up
 
trad. (白熱)
simp. (白热)

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 白熱(はくねつ) (hakunetsu).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation


Noun

白熱

  1. (literally and figuratively) white heat; incandescence

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はく
Grade: 1
ねつ
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) くねつ [hàkúnétsú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ne̞t͡sɨ]

Noun

(はく)(ねつ) • (hakunetsuはくねつ (fakunetu)?

  1. white heat
  2. (figuratively) becoming heated (impassioned)

Verb

(はく)(ねつ)する • (hakunetsu suruはくねつ (fakunetu)?suru (stem (はく)(ねつ) (hakunetsu shi), past (はく)(ねつ)した (hakunetsu shita))

  1. to emit white heat
  2. (figuratively) to become heated (impassioned)
    議論(ぎろん)白熱(はくねつ)した
    Giron ga hakunetsu shita.
    The discussion became heated.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN