Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Page 679, Entry 17 Pronounced xun. Explaining Characters and Writing (Shuowen Jiezi): Originally written as the base form. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Originally written as the base form. Classification Chapters (Leipian): Written in the clerical script as xun. Explaining Characters and Writing (Shuowen Jiezi): Smoke from fire rising upward. Derived from the grass radical and black, with the grass and black symbolizing the appearance of smoke. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Means hot. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The appearance of intense fire energy. Identical to the variant form xun. Book of Odes (Shijing), Bin Wind (Binfeng): Stopping up the smoke-holes. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): The heart is scorched with worry. Commentary: Smoke, meaning to burn or scorch. Explanation of Text: Smoke, originally also written as the variant xun. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Autumn Offices (Qiuguan): Using mang-grass to smoke it. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): The representatives of the ancestors arrive, satisfied and harmonious. Commentary: Harmony and satisfaction. Supplementary Commentary: Sitting and standing in agitation. Explanation of Text: Smoke, in Explaining Characters and Writing (Shuowen Jiezi), it is written as the variant for drunkenness. Also, Cai Yong, Explication of Admonitions (Shihui): Underneath, they obtained the blame of mutual contamination. Note: Refers to mutual corruption leading to punishment. Also, Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lushi Chunqiu): The southeast wind is called the balmy wind. Also, History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Zhao Yi: Zhijiu conversed with him, and until dusk, they parted only after enjoying the utmost pleasure. Also used as the variant xun. Book of Changes (I Ching), Gen Hexagram: Scorching the heart. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Ma Liao: The reputation fills heaven and earth. Pronounced xun. Meaning to burn or scorch. Also interchangeable with the term xin. Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Discourses of Qi (Qiyu): Bathed three times and anointed three times. Note: The character xin is sometimes written as xun. Also rhyming with xuan. Yellow Court Classic (Huangting Jing): Bathing and cleansing, discarding rich scents, entering the room and facing east to recite the Jade Chapters (Yupian). Correction of Errors: The middle part derives from the character for chimney. It is identical to the character for chimney. The common form using the field radical is incorrect.