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熾

熾

See also: 炽

Translingual

Han character

熾 (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

References

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, OC *tʰjɯɡs) : semantic 火 ‎(“fire”) + phonetic 戠 ‎(OC *tjɯɡ).

Pronunciation

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
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
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

熾

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Japanese

Kanji

熾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kindling fire or flame

Readings

Korean

Hanja

熾 • ‎(chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

熾 (sí, xé, xế, xi, xí)

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