炽
chì

burning-hot

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 只 represents the sound. Simplified form of 熾.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
只
只 Sound component
zhǐ, zhī only

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

熾 burning-hot Traditional

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

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
戠
戠 Sound component
zhī, zhí to gather

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyhiHtʰək-sblaze
Zhengzhangtʰjɯɡs

說文解字

盛也。从火戠聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)