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Translingual
Han character
熹 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土口廿火 (GRTF), four-corner 40336, composition ⿱喜灬)
- dim light, glimmer
- warm, bright
- dawn
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 681, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19380
- Dae Jaweon: page 1093, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2239, character 5
- Unihan data for U+71B9
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 嘻
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*qʰɯ
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| 嬉
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*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯs
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| 禧
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*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯʔ
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| 熹
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*qʰlɯ
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| 僖
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*qʰlɯ
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| 歖
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*qʰlɯ
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| 譆
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*qʰlɯ
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| 瞦
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*qʰlɯ
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| 喜
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*qʰlɯʔ
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| 憙
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*qʰlɯʔ, *qʰlɯs
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| 蟢
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*qʰlɯʔ
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| 糦
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*kʰljɯs
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| 饎
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*kʰljɯs
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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熹
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xī
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xi ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*qʰ(r)ə/
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| English
|
shine
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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熹
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13411
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Phonetic
component
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喜
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Rime
group
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之
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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僖
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Old
Chinese
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/*qʰlɯ/
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Definitions
熹
- warm, bright
Compounds
References
- “熹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “熹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.
Japanese
Kanji
熹
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
熹 • (hui) (hangeul 희)
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