熾

See also: 炽

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

• 𢹊

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

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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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chì (chi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chìh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴
    • Yale: chr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyh
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci³
    • Yale: chi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhiH

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/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰək-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjɯɡs/

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. *[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	熾
Reading #	1/1
No.	17247
Phonetic component	戠
Rime group	代
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	熾
Old Chinese	/*tʰjɯɡs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

熾

(uncommon “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)

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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

• Nom Foundation