烕
miè

extinguish

Phonosemantic compound. 戌 represents the sound and 火 represents the meaning.

Components

戌
戌 Sound component
xū, qu 11th terrestrial branch
Change in sound
火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

滅

Meaning (1)

滅

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxjwietm̥et extinguish, destroy

說文解字

《說文》：“烕，滅也。从火，戌。火死於戌，陽氣至戌而盡。《詩》曰：‘赫赫宗周，褒似烕之。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)