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Translingual
Han character
烕 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一火 (IHMF), four-corner 53200, composition ⿵戌火 or ⿵戊灭)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 670, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19007
- Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1405, character 18
- Unihan data for U+70D5
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 滅
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*med
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| 搣
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*med
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| 烕
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*hmed
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| 戌
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*smid
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| 珬
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*smid
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| 銊
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*smid
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmed) : phonetic 戌 (OC *smid) + semantic 火 (“fire”).
Shuowen considers this to be an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 戌 (“ninth month”) + 火 (“fire”), probably alluding to a passage in Huainanzi:
火生於寅，壯於午，死於戌 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
火生于寅，壮于午，死于戌 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- Huǒ shēng yú yín, zhuàng yú wǔ, sǐ yú xū
- fire is born in the first month, is strong in the fifth month, and dies in the ninth month.
Etymology
Cognate with 滅 (OC *med); see there for more.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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烕
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xuè
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xjwiet ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m̥et/
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| English
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extinguish, destroy
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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烕
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13944
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Phonetic
component
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戌
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Rime
group
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月
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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𥄎
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmed/
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| Notes
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戌轉註分化
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Definitions
烕
- † Original form of 滅／灭 (miè, “to extinguish; to destroy”).
赫赫宗周，褒姒烕之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Hèhè Zōngzhōu, Bāo Sì miè zhī.
- But the majestic honoured capital of Zhou,
Is being destroyed by Si of Bao.
Japanese
Kanji
烕
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
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Readings