燬
huǐ HSK6

burn down

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

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
毁
毁 SoundMeaning component
huǐ destroy

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanghmralʔ

說文解字

《說文》:“燬,火也。从火,毀聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica