毀
huǐ HSK6

destroy

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Phonosemantic compound. 毇 represents the sound and 土 represents the meaning.

Components

毇
毇 SoundRemnant component
土
土 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 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 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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartxjweX[m̥](r)ajʔ demolish

說文解字

《說文》：“毀，缺也。从土，毇省聲。，古文毀从壬。”

Sources

Character origin
李学勤《字源》p.1191-1192
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)