Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Character: Mei Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 683, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced si. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced si. Jade Chapters (Yupian): The smell of scorching. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The foul smell of something scorched by fire. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Scorched. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xi. The combination of xing and mei describes an appearance of being scorched. Also: Pronounced xing. Scorched.