熙 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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xī

bright

Components

巸 Sound component

灬 Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

fire

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xī

bright, splendid, glorious; (used in names); (bound form) (literary) bright; prosperous; splendid; genial

xī

variant of 熙[xī]

Most common words with 熙

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	康熙	Kangxi, title of the reign (1661-1722) of the Kangxi Emperor 聖祖\|圣祖[Shèngzǔ]
	熙	prosperous
	薄熙来	Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
	熙熙攘攘	bustling with activity (idiom)
	朴正熙	Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard