熄

熄 U+7184, 熄 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 9683₀, 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

trad.		熄
simp. #		熄
2nd round simp.		息

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 熄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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): sik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sit
• Eastern Min (BUC): sék
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sí
    • Wade–Giles: hsi²
    • Yale: syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: xid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sit̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛiʔ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /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/

Note:

• siak/sek - literary;
• sit - vernacular.

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• 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	sik1

• 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

1. to extinguish (light or fire); to go out
2. (Cantonese) to turn off; to switch off

   熄冷氣／熄冷气 [Cantonese]  ―  sik¹ laang⁵ hei³ [Jyutping]  ―  to turn off the air conditioner

   熄電視／熄电视 [Cantonese]  ―  sik¹ din⁶ si⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  to turn off the television

Synonyms

• (to extinguish):

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• 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

熄

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. 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

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)

1. put out, extinguish
2. quash

Vietnamese

Han character

熄: Hán Nôm readings: tức, tắt

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