to burn / to blaze / splendid / illustrious

炽 character breakdown

only / merely / just / but

= + : Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like something (a head?) on two legs. I'll just represent it by a cuttlefish (只). James II of England (zh) has been in the space station (Ø3) as the only (只) one for too long and went mad. He thinks he's holding a mandarin (口), but he's just about to bite into merely (只) an eight ball (八). On the top of his head is a cuttlefish (只) he mistook for a hat.
surname Huo
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
variant of 只[zhi3]
grain that has begun to ripen
variant of 只[zhi3]
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc

Characters with 炽 as component

炽 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 炽

red-hot / glowing / blazing / (fig.) passionate
burning fiercely / flaming / blazing
Zhu Gaochi, personal name of fourth Ming emperor Hongxi 洪熙[Hong2 Xi1]
nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash
ablaze (fire) / intense (anger, desire etc) / prosperous / booming
white heat / incandescence

Sentences with 炽

炽 currently does not appear in any sentence.