Si Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Fire (huo)
炳
Kangxi Stroke Count: 9
Page 669, Entry 01
Tang Rhyme (Tangyun): Pronounced bing (rising tone).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced bing (rising tone).
Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Bright.
Comprehensive Collection of Characters (Yupian): Clearly evident.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Revolution Hexagram: The great man changes like a tiger, his patterns are brilliant.
Also: Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced beng (falling rising tone). Same meaning.
Also: Pronounced bing (falling tone). The brightness of fire.
Also: Rhyming with the character pronounced bing (rising tone).
Master Yang’s Mystery (Taixuan): Striped as if appearing above, the celestial patterns are brilliant. Great patterns have no mold, following one's intent to proceed.
Guo Pu’s Eulogy on the Bifang Bird from the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): The Bifang has red patterns, essence of fire is its brilliance, when there is drought it soars high, beating its wings in the sunlight. Sunlight is pronounced ying (falling tone).
Comprehensive Collection of Characters (Yupian): Also written as the character pronounced bing (rising tone).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as the character pronounced bing (rising tone).