Si Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Fire (huǒ)
Hui
Kangxi strokes: 13
Page 675, Entry 27
Pronounced hui.
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Characters and Analysis of Compound Characters): Light.
Yupian (Jade Chapters): Dazzling light.
Book of Changes (Yijing): Firm, strong, sincere, and brilliant.
Book of Rites (Liji): Hui means radiating.
Record of Music (Yueji): Virtue radiates from within.
History of the Former Han (Hanshu): Divided the capital into two commanderies, the Front Hui and the Rear Lie.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Light of fire.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Equivalent to Hui (radiance) and Hui (sunlight).
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written as Wei.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced xun.
Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xijing Fu): Gold thresholds and jade stairs, the red courtyard is radiant. Coral, lin-jade, blue stones, and ruan-min stones shimmer beautifully.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Burning.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Gouged out eyes and burned ears.
Tangyun Zheng (Corrections to the Tang Rhymes): Zhang Chao states: Hui follows fire, as its function relates to smoking and burning. Common usage has incorrectly changed it to follow light.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced xuan. Light.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Pronounced hun.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Red color.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Huihuang (radiance), light.
History of the Former Han (Hanshu): Bright and radiant.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Originally written as Kun.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced yuan. Originally written as Yuan. An artisan who treats drums.
Book of Rites (Liji): Rituals involve the duties of the drum-maker, the gatekeeper, and the like, which is the way of showing kindness to subordinates.
Note: Hui, in the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), is written as Yuan. It refers to the official who stretches and cleans leather.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced yun.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): In charge of the ten Hui methods to observe omens and differentiate between good and evil fortune.
Note: Hui refers to the gaseous phenomena of sunlight.
Zhang Shu, Rhapsody on the Dancing Horse (Wu Ma Fu): In the justness of the capable minister, there is the great desire of following the army, surely starting from here to display talent, and will be given to the kitchen and the drum-maker.
Also used interchangeably with Yun (halo) and Yun (transport).
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The sun experiences an eclipse, a halo, or a parhelion.
Explication of Texts: Yun was originally also written as Hui. Also written as Yun.