Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Page 667, Entry 13 Kangxi stroke count: 8 Pronounced yan. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters): The upward rising of firelight. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Heat; to burn. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Yin Zheng: The great fire burns the Kunlun Mountains, and both jade and stone are consumed together. Also, in the Hongfan (Great Plan): The nature of fire is to burn upward. Also, Erya (Approaching Elegance), Shixun: The appearance of heat being intense and scorching. Book of Odes (Shijing), Daya: The momentum is grand and blazing. Also, Guoyu (Discourses of the States): Days are long, and the momentum is vigorous. Note: The appearance of advancing. Also, Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): The fire is fierce and violent. Also, Book of Rites (Liji), Yueling: That Heavenly Emperor is Emperor Yan. Note: This deity of the red spirit is the sovereign Emperor Yan of the Datiang family. Also, Lu's Commentaries (Lüshi Chunqiu): The south is called the blazing sky, and the northeast wind is called the blazing wind. Also, Jiyun (Compilation of Rhymes) and Leipian (Categorized Chapters): Pronounced jian (level tone). The meaning is the same. Also, Leipian: Pronounced tan. Elegant and eloquent speech. Zhuangzi, Qiwulun (Equalizing Assessments of Things): Grand words are flowery and abundant. Note: The appearance of being beautiful and magnificent. Also, Jiyun: Pronounced yan. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: Obtain the illumination of the final light of the sun and moon, and use it to exercise one's talents in handling official affairs. Note: To see the extraordinary effect of the sun and moon's final light to exert one's official capabilities. Also, synonymous with yan (flame). Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on the Five Elements: That which people fear, that kind of arrogance will invite it. Cai Yong, Shihui: Fearing the burning and destruction by smoke and fire. Also, Liezi, Tangwen Pian: To the south of the State of Chu, there is a country of blazing people. Note: Yan is pronounced in the falling tone. Jiyun: Originally written as the variant form (yan). It is also the same as the variant form (yan). Note: In the Shuowen Jiezi, Yupian, and Leipian, the character is listed as a separate radical. Verification: In Liezi, Yintang Pian, it is stated there is a country of blazing people to the south of the State of Chu. This has been corrected according to the original text to read Tangwen Pian.