漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
熙: bright, sunny
Also: prosperous, merry
JLPT N115 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
灬 carries the meaning · 匚 and 巳 are drawn in
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 康熙こうきKangxi era (of emperor Shengzu of Qing
- 康熙字典こうきじてんKangxi dictionary
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 熙春茶ひちゅんちゃhyson (Chinese green tea)
Also read たのしむ, ひかる, ひろい, よろこぶ, かわく, あきらか, ひろめる, ひろまる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“These four dots are flames under a cooking pot! When you see 灬 at the bottom of a kanji, imagine a fire heating something from below.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xī
Same form: 熙 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 熙 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 熙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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