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, composition ⿱巸灬)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		熙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī, yí (xi¹, yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: i²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (熙, reconstructed)
Character (熙), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 許其切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/hɨ/	/xi/	/xiə/	/hɨ/	/hɨ/	/xĭə/	/xie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (熙, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
熙								xī								‹ xi ›								/*qʰ(r)ə/								splendor
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
熙					12012					巳					之					0					僖					/*qʰlɯ/

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Japanese

Kanji

熙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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

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