Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) 炔 Kangxi strokes: 8 Page 667, Entry 19 In Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), pronounced gui (falling tone). In Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), pronounced gui (falling tone). In Yupian (Jade Chapters), it is equivalent to the character jiong. For a detailed explanation, see the entry for jiong. Also, in the History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), in the Biography of Confucian Scholars, there is a man from the Qi region named Que Qin (style name Youqing) who served as a literary official. In Jiyun (Collected Rhymes) and Leipian (Classified Chapters), pronounced jue (falling tone). It describes the appearance of smoke and mist. It is sometimes written in a variant form (yue). Also pronounced jue (entering tone), with the same meaning. Also pronounced xuan (level tone), with the final syllable missing. The term xuan-que describes the appearance of a fire just beginning to burn.