Si Collection, Upper Volume. Radical: Fire (huǒ). Kangxi stroke count: 13. Page 677, Entry 35. Pronounced xu (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To steam or warm. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To heat. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music: Heaven and Earth joyfully unite, Yin and Yang find harmony, warming and cherishing, they cover and nourish all things. Commentary: The essence is called warm, the physical body is called cherish. Sub-commentary: Heaven warms it with its essence, Earth cherishes it with its essence; thus Heaven warms and covers, and Earth cherishes and nourishes. Also, per Shuowen Jiezi: The appearance of red. Yupian: Red color. Also, per Shuowen Jiezi: To be warm and moist. Also, per Yupian: Kindness. Han Yu, Original Way (Yuan Dao): To be warm and caring is what is called benevolence. Also, per Yupian: Also written as a variant form (xu). Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): The light of the sun. Also, pronounced xu (rising tone). Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music, Explanation of Characters for warming and cherishing: Warm is pronounced xu (falling tone). Also, per Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced xiong (falling tone). Also identical to the variant form (xu). The warmth of the sunrise. See the entry for the character (xu) under the Sun radical for details. Also, per Jiyun: Pronounced xu (level tone). Yang Xiong, Regional Speech (Fangyan): Warm, to heat. Li Song, Rhapsody on Stating My Aspirations (Shuzhi Fu): Endowed with mysterious light and shaped by expansion, receiving the hidden talisman of brilliant spiritual forces, shaded by the morning clouds in soft gathering, I look up to the brilliant sun shedding its warmth. Also, per Jiyun: Pronounced xiu (level tone). Originally written as a variant form (xiu). The sound of pain and longing. See the entry for the character (xiu) under the Mouth radical for details.