huī, duò
destroy
Depicts two hands (又) pushing dirt (土) off of a mound (阝).
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤojʔ | dwaX | huī | destroy |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+9693 |
Shuowen | “隓,敗城曰隓,从,聲。,篆文。” |
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