Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) 燒 Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 683, Entry 02 Pronounced shāo. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Scorched. Yupian: To roast. Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances: In the middle of summer, do not burn ashes. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce): To seek repayment from the nobles, the people subsequently burned their debt tallies. Also Shaodang, a name of the Qiang people. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of the Western Qiang: The thirteenth-generation descendant of Yan, Shaodang, ascended to power. Also pronounced shào. Guangyun: To set a fire. Yunhui: Wildfire is called shao.