huǐ HSK6

burn down

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components

Meaning component
huǒ fire
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