Author:Nicolas Delerue, Issue: December 2003, Topic: Household

Winter is coming and it is time to switch your air conditioning from cooling to heating. Here are a few kanji that may help you do it...

KANJI	PRONUNCIATION	MEANING
	danbou	heating
	reibou	cooling
	jidou	automatic
	joshitsu	de-humidify
	unten	in operation
	teishi	stop/cancel
	kirikae	change/switch
	shitsuon	room temperature
	fuusoku	speed of air flow
	fuukou	direction of air flow
	hairu	on
	kiru	off
	yoyaku	set the timer
	torikeshi	cancel

The 2 last are often found near the (timer).

If there are other characters on the remote control, you can try to find them in "The Kanji dictionary" or at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

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