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Simplified form of 壞. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 褱 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
不
不 Simplified component

Shorthand for the phonetic 褱 (huái) component in the traditional character 壞.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

說文解字

《說文》：“坏，丘再成者也。一曰瓦未燒。从土，不聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)