燬
huǐ HSK6

burn down

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毀

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

Components

火
火 Meaning component
毁
毁 SoundMeaning component

Character Evolution

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

說文解字

《說文》：“燬，火也。从火，毀聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)