Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) 焦 Kangxi Stroke Count: 12 Page 674, Entry 06 Tangyun: Pronounced xiao. Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun: Pronounced jiao. Sounds the same as the character for banana. Shuowen: Originally written with a different form. Refers to being burned by fire. Yupian: Refers to being scorched black by fire. Also refers to roasting. Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances (Yueling): Its flavor is bitter; its scent is scorched. Note: This is the scent of fire. All things that are bitter and scorched belong to this category. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Year 2 of Duke Ai: When divining for battle, the tortoise shell was scorched. Book of Rites (Liji), Questions on Mourning (Wensang): Damaging the kidneys, drying out the liver, and scorching the lungs. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Hereditary House of Yue: To cause the body to toil and thoughts to become anxious. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Bian Que: The disease pathogen descends to the triple burner (sanjiao) and the bladder. Note: The Correct Meaning (Zhengyi) states: The Eighty-One Difficulties (Nanjing) says: The triple burner is the path through which water and grain circulate and the beginning and end of the circulation of qi. The upper burner is below the heart, the diaphragm is above the stomach. The middle burner is in the stomach, at the gastric opening. The lower burner is below the navel, directly opposite the upper opening of the bladder. Guangyun: Also written as a variant form (jiao). Also a name of a state. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Year 29 of Duke Xi: Yu, Guo, Jiao, Hua, Huo, Yang, Han, and Wei were all of the Ji surname. Note: The State of Jiao was in Shan County. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Zhou: Invested the descendants of Shennong in the land of Jiao. Note: The Treatise on Geography (Dilizhi) records that Hongnong Commandery, Shan County has Jiao City, which is the original State of Jiao. Also, Annals of Qin: Besieged Jiao City to make it surrender. Note: The Kuodizhi says: Jiao City is one hundred paces northeast inside the city of Shan Prefecture, named after the Jiao River. It was a fief of the Zhou Dynasty's relatives. According to the Zuo Commentary, the State of Jiao was of the Ji surname; the descendants of Shennong were of the Jiang surname. The place they were invested in must have been a different Jiao state. The note in the Annals of Zhou also says it was in Shan County, which is an error. Also a surname. Guangyun: The descendants of Shennong, using the state name as a surname, originated from Nan'an. Also the name of a city in the State of Jin. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Year 31 of Duke Xi: The ruler of the State of Xu promised to give the State of Jin the two locations of Jiao and Xia. Note: These were two of the five cities belonging to the State of Jin outside the Yellow River. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Minor Odes (Xiaoya): Marshaled the troops and camped at Jiaohuo. Erya, Explaining Lands (Shidi): Among the ten great marshes, the Zhou Dynasty had Jiaohuo. Note: This is present-day Fufeng Commandery, Huchong. Also, Yanzi, Outer Chapters (Waipian): In the East Sea there is an insect that nests on the eyelashes of a mosquito; its name is jiaoming. There is also jiaoming, which is the name of a bird. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park (Shanglin Fu): Trapping the jiaoming bird. Note: The jiaoming bird resembles a phoenix. It is also commonly written with a variant form (jiao). Also, Yunhui: Commonly written as a variant form (jiao). See the entry for that character for details. Jiyun: Or written with a variant form. Jiyun: Pronounced qiao. Zhengyun: Pronounced qiao. Sounds the same as the character for woodcutter. Jiyun: Jiaoyi, the name of a place in the State of Chu. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Year 23 of Duke Xi: The State of Chu attacked the State of Chen and seized the two locations of Jiao and Yi. Note: Jiao is Qiao County. Yi is also called Chengfu. Both were cities of the State of Chen. Also synonymous with a variant form (qiao). Ban Gu, Replying to the Guest's Critique (Da Bin Xi): In the morning they were prosperous, but by evening they had become haggard (qiaocui). Jiyun: Pronounced jiu. Belongs to the radical for fire.