huài
destroy
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 褱 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-[k]ˤ<r>uj-s | hweajH | huài | be destroyed |
*m-[k]ˤ<r>uj-s | hweajH | huài | destroy |
*N-[k]ˤujʔ | hwojX | huài | be destroyed |
*m-[k]ˤujʔ | hwojX | huài | destroy |
*[k]ʷˤ<r>ujʔ-s | kweajH | huài | destroy |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 80.3940% of movies
455th most common character in movies
832nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+58DE |
Shuowen | “壞，敗也。从土，褱聲。，古文壞省。，籀文壞。” |
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