熙

See also 煕, 熈, 焈, and 凞

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 巸 + semantic 灬 (“fire”)

Han character

熙 (radical 86 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸山火 (SUF), X尸山火 (XSUF), four-corner 7733₁)

1. bright, splendid, glorious

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 678, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2226, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7199

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Cantonese

Hanzi

熙 (Yale hei1)

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Japanese

Kanji

熙

Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: ひかり (hikari), ひかる (hikaru)

Compounds

• 熙熙
• 熙笑

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Korean

Hanja

熙 (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

熙 (pinyin xī (xi1), yí (yi2), Wade-Giles hsi¹, i²)