Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Zhù Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 672, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state: Pronounced chu. Jade Chapters (Yupian) and Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) state: The appearance of fire smoldering and rising. Erudite Refinements (Boya) states: To dry in the sun, to smolder. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: Sometimes written in a variant form.