bright

Components
巸 sound component

  Sound component

  

灬 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāohuǒ

  

fire

fire

Evolution

熙 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
熙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
熙 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
熙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bright, splendid, glorious; (used in names); (bound form) (literary) bright; prosperous; splendid; genial

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variant of [xī]

Most common words with 熙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

康熙

Kangxi, title of the reign (1661-1722) of the Kangxi Emperor 聖祖|圣祖[Shèng​zǔ]

prosperous

薄熙来

Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct

熙熙攘攘

bustling with activity (idiom)

朴正熙

Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard