xiǎn

fire

Components
豩 sound component

  Sound component

  

火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

Evolution

燹 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
燹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
燹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiǎn

fire; wild fires; conflagration

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5929th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+71F9

Shuowen

“燹,火也。从火,豩聲。”


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