熹

See also: 熺

熹 U+71B9, 熹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71B9 ← 熸 [U+71B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 熺 → [U+71BA]

Translingual

Han character

熹 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土口廿火 (GRTF), four-corner 4033₆, composition ⿱喜灬)

1. dim light, glimmer
2. warm, bright
3. dawn

Derived characters

• 𰃂, 𨯨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 681, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19380
• Dae Jaweon: page 1093, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2239, character 5
• Unihan data for U+71B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		熹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (喜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嘻	*qʰɯ
嬉	*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯs
禧	*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯʔ
熹	*qʰlɯ
僖	*qʰlɯ
歖	*qʰlɯ
譆	*qʰlɯ
瞦	*qʰlɯ
喜	*qʰlɯʔ
憙	*qʰlɯʔ, *qʰlɯs
蟢	*qʰlɯʔ
糦	*kʰljɯs
饎	*kʰljɯs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xi

Rime
Character	熹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許其切
Baxter	xi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/hɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/xie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨ/
Li Rong	/xiə/
Wang Li	/xĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰlɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	熹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ xi ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)ə/
English	shine
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	熹
Reading #	1/1
No.	13411
Phonetic component	喜
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	僖
Old Chinese	/*qʰlɯ/

Definitions

熹

1. warm, bright

Compounds

• 火熹微
• 熹平
• 熹平石經 / 熹平石经
• 熹微 (xīwēi)

References

• “熹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “熹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

熹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: き (ki)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kun: あぶる (aburu, 熹る)

Korean

Hanja

熹 • (hui) (hangeul 희)

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