TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字
熙
熙 ＝ 灬 ＋ 巸
ㄒㄧ · xī
adj — bright, splendid, prosperous; bustling
字源 FORM — what the parts do
灬義fire, drying and warmingthe four-dot foot is 火 (fire) flattened
巸聲yí — gives the soundopaque now: 𦣝 (breath/belly) over 巳; not a piece you can read off the modern glyph
ITyí → xī — the donor's sound worn far from its child
Fire (灬) drying and warming a thing — out of that warmth comes bright, glowing, then flourishing: 熙攘 a bustling crowd, 康熙 a splendid reign. 巸 yí carries the sound, worn down to xī and no longer legible in the glyph.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
火（灬）在底下烘著，越烘越亮——一片光明熱鬧。
Fire (灬) banked underneath, warming and brightening — the whole scene aglow and astir.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)烘、暖— to dry and warm by fire
→光明、興盛— bright; flourishing常用
⇒熙攘、熙來攘往— bustling — a crowd astir
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
熹xīthe lookalike — 熹 stacks 喜 over the fire, 熙 carries on the left康kāngthe partner in 康熙 — the prosperous reign