Chinese Character Wiki

熾

chì

burning-hot

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 戠 represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

戠 sound component

戠  Sound component

zhī, zhí

  

to gather

Evolution

熾 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
熾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
熾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
熾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

炽 (熾) 

chì

burning-hot, intense; to burn, blaze; splendid, illustrious; to burn; to blaze; splendid; illustrious

Most common words with 熾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

炽

to burn

炽热

red-hot

炽烈

flaming

白炽灯

incandescent light

白炽

white heat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰək-s

tsyhiH

chì

blaze


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3277th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

炽

Unicode

U+71BE

Shuowen

“熾，盛也。从火，戠聲。，古文熾。”


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