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毀

huǐ

destroy

Phonosemantic compound. 毇 represents the sound and 土 represents the meaning.

Components
毇 sound,remnant component

毇  Sound Remnant component

huǐ

  

to pound rice

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

Evolution

毀 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
毀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毀 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
毀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毁 (毀) 

huǐ

destroy, ruin, injure; slander; to destroy; to damage; to ruin; to defame; to slander

Most common words with 毀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毁

to destroy

摧毁

to destroy

毁灭

to perish

销毁

to obliterate

烧毁

to burn

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m̥](r)ajʔ

xjweX

huǐ

demolish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 51.1453% of movies

809th most common character in movies

1160th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

毁

Unicode

U+6BC0

Shuowen

“毀，缺也。从土，毇省聲。，古文毀从壬。”


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