爇
ruò

burn

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 热 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

熱
熱 SoundMeaning component
rè hot

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnywetnot to burn

說文解字

《說文》：“爇，燒也。从火，蓺聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘爇僖負覉。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)