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Translingual
Han character
毀 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹土竹弓水 (HGHNE), four-corner 77147, composition ⿰⿱臼土殳)
Derived characters
- 𡒂, 𡢶, 𢶙, 檓, 燬, 𥼹, 譭, 𦽐, 𥵓, 𨷕, 𡢕, 㩓, 𥽂, 𧝷, 䥣
Further reading
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 586, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16654
- Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 2162, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6BC0
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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- Sears interprets it as Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 臼 (“cracked skull”) + 工 (“tool”) + 殳 (“hand action”), a man being hit in the head.
- Liu Zhao interprets it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hmralʔ, *hmrals) : phonetic 𬛸 () + semantic 殳 (“hand holding staff; strike”)
- Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hmralʔ, *hmrals) : abbreviated phonetic 毇 (OC *hmralʔ) + semantic 土
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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毀
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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huǐ
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xjweX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(r)ajʔ/
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| English
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demolish
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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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毀
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毀
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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5451
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5456
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Phonetic
component
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毀
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毀
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Rime
group
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歌
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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毀
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毁
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmralʔ/
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/*hmrals/
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Definitions
毀
- to destroy; to ruin
- 毀了自己的前途／毁了自己的前途 ― huǐ le zìjǐ de qiántú ― to ruin one's own future
- to slander
- a surname: Hui
Synonyms
- 亂 / 乱 (luàn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 僝僽 (chánzhòu) (literary)
- 圮毀 / 圮毁 (pǐhuǐ) (literary)
- 壞 / 坏 (huài)
- 打掉 (dǎdiào)
- 損壞 / 损坏 (sǔnhuài)
- 損毀 / 损毁 (sǔnhuǐ)
- 搗砸 / 捣砸 (dau2 zah5) (Jin)
- 摧殘 / 摧残 (cuīcán)
- 摧毀 / 摧毁 (cuīhuǐ)
- 毀壞 / 毁坏 (huǐhuài)
- 毀損 / 毁损 (huǐsǔn)
- 決裂 / 决裂 (juéliè) (archaic)
- 破 (pò) (literary, or in compounds)
- 破壞 / 破坏 (pòhuài)
- 糟 (zāo) (literary, or in compounds)
- 糟蹋 (zāotà)
- 隳 (huī) (literary, or in compounds)
Compounds
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 毀 – see 燬 (“blazing fire; to burn up; to burn down”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 燬). |
Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 毀 – see 譭 (“to slander; to defame”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 譭). |
Japanese
Kanji
毀
(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𭮳)
- break, destroy, demolish
Readings
Korean
Hanja
毀 • (hwe) (hangeul 훼)
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Vietnamese
Han character
毀: Hán Nôm readings: hủy/huỷ
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