Translingual

Han character

燹 (radical 86 火+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一人火 (MOF), four-corner 1180₉, composition ⿱豩火)

1. fire
2. wild fires

References

• KangXi: page 685, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19508
• Dae Jaweon: page 1098, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2242, character 23
• Unihan data for U+71F9

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 燹
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) - a group of pigs (豩) fleeing from a fire (火). The bronze script form has a hand with a stick (攴), indicating that the fire would have been started on purpose, in manner to get rid of the pigs. The large seal script form also has what looks like 爾 on the right side.

Pronunciation

Definitions

燹

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. wildfire
2. backburn

Readings

• Goon: せん (sen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: のび (nobi), ぬび (nubi, obsolete) ほそけ (hosoke)

Compounds

• 兵燹 (へいせん) ‎(heisen) (rare): a fire caused by war; by extension, a battle

Etymology 1

Compound of 野 ‎(no, “field”) +‎ 火 ‎(hi, “fire”).^[1][2]The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

An ancient variant seen in eastern Japan uses the dialectal reading nu for 野.^[1]

Use of this kanji 燹 is rare, and is an example of jukujikun. The standard spelling is 野火.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) の​び [nóꜜbì] (Atamadaka - [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [no̞bi]

Noun

燹 ‎(hiragana のび, romaji nobi) (rare)

燹 ‎(hiragana ぬび, romaji nubi) (obsolete)

1. a wildfire

Alternative forms

• 野火 (standard spelling)

Usage notes

Spelled using this kanji, 燹 excludes the "controlled agricultural burn" sense found found under the 野火 spelling.

Etymology 2

Compound of 火 ‎(ho, “fire”) +‎ 退く ‎(soku, “to push away, to make distant”).^[1]

The kun'yomi for 火 is usually hi, but it can appear as ho or fu, particularly in older compounds.

The soku changes to soke due to conjugation of the verb. Grammatically, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of soke indicates the transitive.^[1]

Use of this kanji 燹 is rare, and is an example of jukujikun. The more common spelling is 火退.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ho̞so̞ke̞]

Noun

燹 ‎(hiragana ほそけ, romaji hosoke) (rare)

1. a backburn: a controlled fire deliberately set in the path of a wildfire to create a firebreak by removing combustible material

Alternative forms

• 火退 (rare)
• 逆焼 (rare)
• 野火 (rare)

Usage notes

The more common word for this is 向火, 向 (む)かい火 (び) ‎(mukaibi).^[1]

Synonyms

• 向火, 向 (む)かい火 (び) ‎(mukaibi)

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

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