Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) 煨 Kangxi Strokes: 13 Page 678, Entry 01 Pronounced wei Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining and Analyzing Characters): Fire in a basin. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Heating something in a basin with fire. Liushu Gu (Origins of the Six Writings): Heating things in fire. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Smoldering fire. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Smoldering fire is called wei. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): Facing naked blades and stepping on glowing coals. Also used in personal names. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Zhonglangjiang Duan Wei. Pronounced yu (stifled heat). To store fire.