燹

Translingual

Han character

燹 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一人火 (MOF), four-corner 1180₉, composition ⿱豩火)

Derived characters

• 𨰖 𨷹 𩰟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 685, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19508
• Dae Jaweon: page 1098, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2242, character 23
• Unihan data for U+71F9

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 燹
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) - a group of pigs (豩) fleeing from a fire (火). The bronze script form has a hand with a stick (攴), indicating that the fire would have been started on purpose, in manner to get rid of the pigs. The large seal script form also has what looks like 爾 on the right side.

Pronunciation

Definitions

燹

1. (literary) fire, especially wildfire or war fire
2. (literary) to burn

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. wildfire
2. backburn

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: のび (nobi); ぬび (nubi); ほそけ (hosoke)
• Nanori: のび (nobi)

Compounds

• 兵燹(へいせん) (heisen) (rare): a fire caused by war; by extension, a battle

Etymology 1

Compound of 野 (no, “field”) +‎ 火 (hi, “fire”). The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

An ancient variant seen in eastern Japan uses the dialectal reading nu for 野.

Use of this kanji 燹 is rare, and is an example of jukujikun. The standard spelling is 野火.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) の​び (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

燹(のび) • (nobi)  (rare)

燹(ぬび) • (nubi)  (obsolete)

1. a wildfire

Usage notes

Spelled using this kanji, 燹 excludes the "controlled agricultural burn" sense found found under the 野火 spelling.

Alternative forms

• 野火 (standard spelling)

Etymology 2

Compound of 火 (ho, “fire”) +‎ 退く (soku, “to push away, to make distant”).

The kun'yomi for 火 is usually hi, but it can appear as ho or fu, particularly in older compounds.

The soku changes to soke due to conjugation of the verb. Grammatically, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of soke indicates the transitive.

Use of this kanji 燹 is rare, and is an example of jukujikun. The more common spelling is 火退.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

燹(ほそけ) • (hosoke)  (rare)

1. a backburn: a controlled fire deliberately set in the path of a wildfire to create a firebreak by removing combustible material

Usage notes

The more common word for this is 向火, 向(む)かい火(び) (mukaibi).

Alternative forms

• 火退 (rare)
• 逆焼 (rare)
• 野火 (rare)

Synonyms

• 向火, 向(む)かい火(び) (mukaibi)

References

Korean

Hanja

燹 (eum 희 (hui))

1. fire
2. wild fires

Vietnamese

Han character

燹: Hán Nôm readings: tiển

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References

• Nom Foundation