字 Kanji Decipher

Meaning & readings

warmth

On’yomi ダン、ノン
Kun’yomi あたた.か、あたた.かい、あたた.まる、あたた.める

Origin

The kanji 暖 combines the radical 日, which means sun or represents heat and light, with the component 爰 on the right, which serves as a sound hint for pronunciation. The sun is naturally associated with warmth and heat, so placing the sun radical next to a sound indicator creates a character that means warmth or to become warm. This makes sense because the sun is the most obvious source of natural heat in everyday experience.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).

暖 13 strokes

Components

  • 日 radical left
  • 爰 sound hint right

A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.

Common words

  • 温暖 おんだん warm; mild
  • 暖冬 だんとう mild winter; warm winter
  • 暖房 だんぼう (indoor) heating
  • 暖流 だんりゅう warm current
  • 暖簾 のれん (short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house
  • 暖炉 だんろ fireplace; hearth
  • 寒暖計 かんだんけい thermometer
  • 暖かい あたたかい warm; mild

Related kanji

Same sound component 爰
Same radical

Reference

Strokes
13
Kangxi radical
72
Grade
Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
Frequency rank
#1371 (newspapers)
Former JLPT
level 2
Unicode
U+06696