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熄 — Chinese character

熄
xī
to extinguish, to put out, to quench

Pinyin
xī
Radical
86 ⽕ (Fire)
Strokes
14
Components
火 息
Formation
ideographic — To end 息 a flame 火; 息 also provides the pronunciation
Japanese
熄 as a kanji

Common words with 熄

WordPinyinMeaning
熄灭 (熄滅)xī mièto stop burning; to go out (of fire)
熄灯 (熄燈)xī dēngturn out the lights; lights out
熄火xī huǒ(of fire, lamp etc) to go out; to put out (fire)
吹熄chuī xīto blow out (a flame)
智熄zhì xī(slang) extremely foolish; beyond stupid (pun on 窒息 (zhì xī))
熄屏xī píngvariant of 息屏 (xī píng)

English words written with 熄

熄 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Mencius 3

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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