Si Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Fire (huǒ)
燼
Kangxi Stroke Count: 18
Page 685, Entry 31
Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rimes (Yunhui), and Correct Rimes (Zhengyun): Pronounced jin (falling tone).
Jade Chapters (Yupian): The same. See the entry for the character mentioned for details.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Xiang: To collect the remnants of the two states. Commentary: Remnants refers to the surviving people.
Discourses of Wu (Wuyu): Peacefully receive the remnants. Commentary: Remnants refers to what is left over.
Also rhymed as zixin, pronounced jin (level tone).
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): The people have no dark-haired heads left, disasters are complete, leaving only embers. Alas, there is grief, the state is in decline. Commentary: What remains after a disaster is called embers.