炽
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to burn; to blaze; splendid; illustrious
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 熾
- Common rank
- #3,332
- Unicode
- U+70BD
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 炽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白炽灯 | incandescent lamp | |
| 朱高炽 | Zhu Gaochi, personal name of fourth Ming emperor Hongxi 洪熙[Hong2 Xi1] | |
| 白炽 | white heat; incandescence | |
| 旺炽性 | florid (medicine) | |
| 炽热 | red-hot; glowing; blazing; (fig.) passionate | |
| 旺炽型 | florid (medicine) | |
| 炽盛 | ablaze (fire); intense (anger, desire etc); prosperous; booming | |
| 炽烈 | burning fiercely; flaming; blazing | |
| 旺炽 | blazing |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 只 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 只 sound part | only, merely, just | |
| 识 | knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know | |
| 积 | to store up, to amass, to accumulate | |
| 职 | duty, profession; office, post | |
| 织 | to knit, to weave; to organize, to unite | |
| 帜 | flag, pennant, sign; to fasten | |
| 咫 | unit of length used during the Zhou dynasty | |
| 枳 | trifoliate orange; hedge thorn | |
| 轵 | the end of an axle that extends beyond the hub |