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Mythic Mandarin

炽 (chì): meaning and stroke order

炽 (chì) means to burn, to blaze, splendid, illustrious.

炽

Simplified
炽
Traditional
熾
Pinyin
chì

Stroke order of 炽

炽

  • chì to burn; to blaze
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 熾

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 炽

  1. chì Traditional 熾
    • to burn
    • to blaze
    • splendid
    • illustrious

Radical and structure

炽
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 9 strokes · 火 on the left, 只 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 炽

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).