Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Character: 熇 Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 679, Entry 07 Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced huo. Jiyun (Compendium of Rhymes) and Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced huo. Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Heat from fire. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Blazing, burning. Guangyun: Appearance of heat. Book of Odes (Shijing), Great Odes: "With many such blazing, blazing (heats), they cannot be cured." Commentary: Blazing, blazing means very intense. Sub-commentary: Blazing, blazing describes the intensity of hot air, therefore it means intense. Also, Tangyun (Tang Rhymes): Pronounced wu. Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced hu. The meaning is the same. Yunhui: Sometimes written in a variant form (xiao). Also, Guangyun: Pronounced hao. Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun: Pronounced hao. Same as the character (xiao). Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explaining Instructions: (Xiao xiao) means to promote slander and evil. Sub-commentary: Cites the Book of Odes, "With many such blazing, blazing," as meaning to frequently perform cruel and poisonous evils. The pronunciation and meaning of (xiao) and (he) are the same. Explication of Texts: (Xiao) is pronounced like (xu). Also, Jiyun: Pronounced xiao. Fiery air. Sometimes written as (qiao). Also, Jiyun: Pronounced xiao. Originally written as (xiao). Intense. See the note under the entry for (xiao). Also, Jiyun and Leipian (Classified Chapters): Pronounced kao. Jiyun: Originally written as (kao). Dry. See the note under the entry for (kao). Also, Pronounced kao. To scorch. Sometimes written as (ku). See the note under the entry for (ku).