熾

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See also: 炽
熾 U+71BE, 熾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71BE
← 熽
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 熿 →

Translingual

Han character

熾 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火卜戈日 (FYIA), four-corner 93850, composition ⿰火戠)

  1. burning-hot, intense
  2. to burn, blaze
  3. splendid, illustrious

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 681, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19385
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2236, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+71BE

Chinese

trad. 熾
simp. 炽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
識 *tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
幟 *tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
織 *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
熾 *tʰjɯɡs
樴 *dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
職 *tjɯɡ
軄 *tjɯɡ
戠 *tjɯɡ
膱 *tjɯɡ
蟙 *tjɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjɯɡs): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 戠 (OC *tjɯɡ).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 熾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌志切
Baxter tsyhiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕʰɨH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕʰɨH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕʰieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cʰɨH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕʰiəH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕʰĭəH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ci3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 熾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyhiH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tʰək-s/
English blaze

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 熾
Reading # 1/1
No. 17247
Phonetic
component 		戠
Rime
group 		代
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		熾
Old
Chinese 		/*tʰjɯɡs/

Definitions

熾

  1. (of fire) intense; raging
  2. flourishing; prosperous
  3. to burn

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

熾

  1. (Hokkien) to macerate; to ret; to soak
  2. (Xiamen Hokkien) to shine for a short while (of the sun)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

熾

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. kindling fire or flame

Readings

  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: さかん (sakan, 熾ん)、おこす (okosu, 熾す)

Korean

Hanja

熾 (eum 치 (chi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

熾: Hán Nôm readings: xé, xế, xi, sí, xí

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References

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