U+71BE "熾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
熾
U+71BE "熾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (also used in Japanese as a Jōyō kanji and in Korean Hanja) that primarily means "flame," "blazing," or "intensely hot," often conveying a sense of fervent heat or ardor. Composed of the radical 火 (fire) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, it appears in classical and modern texts to describe burning energy or passionate intensity, such as in the word "熾烈" (shirētsu), meaning fierce or raging. This character represents both literal combustion and metaphorical enthusiasm, underscoring its role in expressing powerful, fiery concepts across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+71BE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 熾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 熾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x86 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x71BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000071BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u71be |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BF4B |
| kCCCII | 214A21 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7135 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7135 |
| kCangjie | FYIA |
| kCantonese | ci3 |
| kCihaiT | 857.602 |
| kDefinition | burning-hot, intense; to burn, blaze; splendid, illustrious |
| kEACC | 214A21 |
| kFanqie | 昌志 |
| kFenn | 93G |
| kFennIndex | 69.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9385.0 |
| kGB1 | 1967 |
| kGSR | 0920l |
| kHangul | 치:0N |
| kHanYu | 32236.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32236.080:chì |
| kHKGlyph | 2422 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32236.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0681.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3363 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BF4B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5F75 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEF1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-763F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7135 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E3A |
| kJapanese | シ さかん おき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKAN |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 6385 |
| kKangXi | 0681.260 |
| kKorean | CHI |
| kMandarin | chì |
| kMatthews | 978 |
| kMeyerWempe | 260d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016605 MJ016605:E0101 MJ016606:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 19385 19385:E0101 |
| kNelson | 2801 |
| kPhonetic | 164 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5584+86.4.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.12 |
| kSBGY | 358.19 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "炽" U+70BD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 403.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chì粵ci3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3589 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | xé |
| kXerox | 264:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 0145.031:chì |