隓
huīduò

destroy

← Back to history
approved by Peter Olson · Oct 10, 2021, 03:46 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 10, 2021, 03:46 PM

add stroke data

Changed fields: strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages

Depicts two hands (又) pushing dirt (土) off of a mound (阝).

Components

阝
阝 Iconic component
fù hill, place
又
又 Iconic component
yòu hand
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.
土
土 Iconic component
tǔ earth
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 土 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdwaXlˤojʔ destroy

說文解字

《說文》：“隓，敗城曰隓，从，聲。，篆文。”

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)