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燬

huǐ

burn down

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

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

毁 sound,meaning component

毁  Sound Meaning component

huǐ

  

destroy

Evolution

燬 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
燬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
燬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

燬  

huǐ

burn down; blaze, fire

毁 (燬) 

huǐ

variant of 毀|毁[huǐ]; to destroy by fire; a blaze

Most common words with 燬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毁

to destroy

摧毁

to destroy

毁灭

to perish

销毁

to obliterate

烧毁

to burn

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 51.1453% of movies

809th most common character in movies

1160th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+71EC

Shuowen

“燬，火也。从火，毀聲。”


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