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Translingual
Han character
毇 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹弓水 (HDHNE), four-corner 77947, composition ⿰䊆殳)
- grind in a mortar, to grind or husk rice with a mortar and pestle
- eight dou (斗) of rice
Derived terms
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 587, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16679
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2166, character 14
- Unihan data for U+6BC7
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 毀
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*hmralʔ, *hmrals
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| 燬
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*hmralʔ
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| 檓
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*hmralʔ
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| 毇
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*hmralʔ
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| 譭
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*hmralʔ
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Multiple explanations exist:
- Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 䊆 (“rice in a mortar”) + 殳 (“hand holding a pestle”)
- Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmralʔ) : abbreviated phonetic 毀 (OC *hmralʔ, *hmrals, “to demolish”) + semantic 米 (“rice”).
Original meaning to finely pound rice in a mortar.
Pronunciation
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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毇
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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5454
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Phonetic
component
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毀
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Rime
group
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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毀
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmralʔ/
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Definitions
毇
- (obsolete) to pound rice in a mortar