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熄

熄

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. put out, extinguish, quash

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

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

Pronunciation

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
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. (of a fire or light (source)) to go out

Japanese

Kanji

熄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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