Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) 燒 Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 683, Entry 08 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced shao Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced shao Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): To burn Jade Chapters (Yupian): To roast Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances (Yueling): In the middle of summer, do not burn ashes. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce): To request the bestowal of debts upon the various lords; the people then burned their debt tallies. Also Shaodang, a name of the Qiang people. Book of the Later Han (Houhan Shu), Biographies of the Western Qiang: The thirteenth-generation descendant of Yan, Shaodang, took the throne. Also Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced shao Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To set a fire. Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): Wildfire is called shao.