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Translingual

Han character

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

  1. bright, splendid, glorious

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ljɯʔ, *lɯs
*ljɯʔ
*ljɯʔ
*zrɯʔ
*kʰɯʔ
*qʰlɯ
*qʰlɯ, *lɯ
*lɯ
*lɯ, *lɯs
*lɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰlɯ) : phonetic  (OC *lɯ) + semantic  (fire).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/hɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/xie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hɨ/
Li
Rong
/xiə/
Wang
Li
/xĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ xi ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰ(r)ə/
English 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12012
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰlɯ/

Definitions

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Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. A surname.

Compounds

  • 光熙
  • 劉熙刘熙
  • 太熙
  • 孔祥熙
  • 康熙 (Kāngxī)
  • 康熙字典
  • 徐熙
  • 民熙物阜
  • 淳熙
  • 淳熙閣帖淳熙阁帖
  • 熙來攘往熙来攘往
  • 熙寧熙宁
  • 熙怡
  • 熙攘
  • 熙春
  • 熙朝
  • 熙洽
  • 熙熙
  • 熙熙壤壤
  • 熙熙攘攘
  • 熙熙融融
  • 物阜民熙
  • 王熙鳳王熙凤
  • 緝熙缉熙
  • 郭熙
  • 重熙
  • 重熙累洽
  • 雍熙

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. shine

Readings

Compounds

  • 熙熙
  • 熙笑

Korean

Hanja

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

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