# 熹

| 熹 | U+71B9, &#29113; 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 4033$_6$, composition ⿱喜灬)
* dim light, glimmer
* warm, bright
* dawn

#### Derived characters

* 𰃂, 𰨗, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (xi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hei$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hei$^1$
*** Yale: hēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: héi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hei̯⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hi⁵³³/
* 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 | hei$^1$ |
* 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
* 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)‎, 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

(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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