# 熄

| 熄 | U+7184, &#29060; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7184 |
| ← 熃 [U+7183] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 熅 → [U+7185] |

## Translingual
### Han character

熄 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火竹山心 (FHUP), four-corner 9683$_0$, composition ⿰火息)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 679, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19287
* Dae Jaweon: page 1090, character 26
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2223, character 13
* Unihan data for U+7184

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 熄
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 息 | *slɯɡ |
| 熄 | *slɯɡ |
| 媳 | *slɯɡ |
| 鄎 | *slɯɡ |
| 瘜 | *slɯɡ |
| 蒠 | *slɯɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slɯɡ): semantic 火 + phonetic 息 (OC *slɯɡ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xī, xí
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sik$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sit
* Eastern Min (BUC): sék
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sit
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sêg$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xí
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sí
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^2$
*** Yale: syí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sik$^1$
*** Yale: sīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪk̚⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sit
*** Hakka Romanization System: xid$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: xid$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /sit̚²/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sék
*** Sinological IPA : /sɛiʔ²⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sih
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
*** Tâi-lô: siak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siag
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
*** Tâi-lô: sik
*** Phofsit Daibuun: seg
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit
*** Tâi-lô: sit
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sid
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sit̚³²/
* siak/sek - literary;
* sit - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: sik
Rime :
| Character | 熄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 職 (134) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 相即切 |
| Baxter | sik |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sɨk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sɨk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /siek̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sik̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭək̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si̯ək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sik$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*sək/
    (Zhengzhang): /*slɯɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 熄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sik › |
| Old Chinese | /*sək/ |
| English | extinguish |
| 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 | 熄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13333 |
| Phonetic component | 息 |
| Rime group | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 息 |
| Old Chinese | /*slɯɡ/ |

### Definitions

熄
* to extinguish (light or fire); to go out
* (Cantonese) to turn off; to switch off
    熄冷氣／熄冷气 [Cantonese] ― sik$^1$ laang$^5$ hei$^3$ [Jyutping] ― to turn off the air conditioner
    熄電視／熄电视 [Cantonese] ― sik$^1$ din$^6$ si$^6$ [Jyutping] ― to turn off the television

#### Synonyms

* (to extinguish):
* 滅 / 灭 (miè)
* 熄滅 / 熄灭 (xīmiè)
* 花去 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
* (to turn off): 關／关 (guān)

#### Compounds

* 捻熄 (niǎnxī)
* 熄滅 / 熄灭 (xīmiè)
* 熄火 (xīhuǒ)
* 熄燈 / 熄灯 (xīdēng)
* 熄風 / 熄风

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “熄”, 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)
* cessation, disappearance, extinction

#### Readings

* Go-on: そく (soku)
* Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
* Kun: きえる (kieru, 熄える)、やむ (yamu, 熄む)

#### Compounds

* 熄(そく)滅(めつ) (sokumetsu, “disappearance, extinction”)
* 終(しゅう)熄(そく) (shūsoku, “end, termination”)

## Korean
### Hanja

熄 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune–Reischauer sik, Yale sik)
* put out, extinguish
* quash

## Vietnamese
### Han character

熄: Hán Nôm readings: tức, tắt
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