熄

熄 U+7184, 熄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7184 ← 熃 [U+7183] CJK Unified Ideographs 熅 → [U+7185]

Translingual

Han character

熄 (radical 86, 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火竹山心 (FHUP), four-corner 9683₀, composition ⿰火息)

References

• KangXi: page 679, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19287
• Dae Jaweon: page 1090, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2223, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7184

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		熄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
息	*slɯɡ
熄	*slɯɡ
媳	*slɯɡ
鄎	*slɯɡ
瘜	*slɯɡ
蒠	*slɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *slɯɡ): semantic 火 + phonetic 息 (OC *slɯɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī, xí

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sit
• Min Nan (POJ): siak / sek / sit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: xí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: xid`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xid⁵
    • IPA: /ɕit̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit
    • Tâi-lô: sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sid
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɕit̚³²/

Note:

• siak/sek - literary;
• sit - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /sɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	熄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相即切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/siek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sik̚/
Li Rong	/siək̚/
Wang Li	/sĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	熄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ sik ›
Old Chinese	/*sək/
English	extinguish
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	熄
Reading #	1/1
No.	13333
Phonetic component	息
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	息
Old Chinese	/*slɯɡ/

Definitions

熄

1. to extinguish (light or fire); to go out

Compounds

• 捻熄 (niǎnxī)
• 熄滅／熄灭 (xīmiè)

• 熄火 (xīhuǒ)
• 熄燈／熄灯 (xīdēng)

• 熄風／熄风

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Japanese

Kanji

熄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cessation

Readings

• On (unclassified): そく (soku)
• Kun: きえる (kieru), やむ (yamu)

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Korean

Hanja

熄 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune–Reischauer sik, Yale sik)

1. put out, extinguish
2. quash