Kanji Detail for 熄 - "cease, embers"

熄

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
熄 means "cease, embers."
1. Cease - To stop; to disappear; for fire to go out.
2. Embers - Charcoal buried in ash.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

cessation

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

put out, extinguish, quash

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to extinguish; to put out (fire); to quench; to stop burning; to go out (of fire, lamp etc); to come to an end; to wither away; to die out; Taiwan pr. [xi2]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to extinguish, to put out, to quench

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Fire going out. Extinction is also called 熄. (Mencius) "The traces of the true king died out."
Onyomi

soku(そく)
Kunyomi

ki.eru(きえる)

ya.mu(やむ)
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

火灬 (hi・hihen・rekka・renga)
Related Keywords
cease stop disappear fire embers charcoal buried ash