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炽

chì

Character Traditional 熾

What 炽 means

1. to burn
2. to blaze
3. splendid
4. illustrious

Words starting with 炽

• 炽热chì rèred-hot; glowing; blazing
• 炽烈chì lièburning fiercely; flaming; blazing
• 炽盛chì shèngablaze (fire); intense (anger, desire etc); prosperous

Words containing 炽

• 旺炽wàng chìblazing
• 白炽bái chìwhite heat; incandescence
• 旺炽型wàng chì xíngflorid (medicine)
• 旺炽性wàng chì xìngflorid (medicine)
• 朱高炽Zhū Gāo chìZhu Gaochi, personal name of fourth Ming emperor Hongxi 洪熙
• 白炽灯bái chì dēngincandescent lamp

Characters built on 只

These share the phonetic component 只 (zhǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 织zhīto weave; to knit
• 识shíto know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. shì
• 职zhíoffice; duty
• 积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…
• 帜zhìflag
• 咫zhǐ8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty
• 枳zhǐ(orange); hedge thorn
• 轵zhǐend of axle outside of hub

Characters that look like 炽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 织zhīto weave; to knit
• 胆dǎngall bladder; courage; guts
• 烂lànsoft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose
• 烘hōngto bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast
• 烛zhúcandle; (literary) to illuminate
• 拱gǒngto cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch

Sounds the same

Read chì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 翅(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
• 赤red; scarlet; bare
• 斥to blame; to reprove; to reprimand
• 敕imperial orders
• 叱to scold; shout at; to hoot at
• 彳step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60); see also 彳亍
• 踅walk with one leg
• 饬(bound form) to put in order; to arrange properly; circumspect
• 啻only (classical, usually follows negative or question words); (not) just
• 抶beat; flog
• 傺to detain; to hinder
• 敇Imperial command or edict