毇
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Translingual
Han character
毇 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹弓水 (HDHNE), four-corner 77947, composition ⿰䊆殳)
Derived terms
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 587, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16679
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2166, character 14
- Unihan data for U+6BC7
Chinese
| trad. | 毇 | |
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| simp. # | 毇 | |
| alternative forms | 𥶵 𥼹 𥵓 𥸃 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 毇 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (毀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Multiple explanations exist:
- Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 䊆 (“rice in a mortar”) + 殳 (“hand holding a pestle”)
- Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hmralʔ): abbreviated phonetic 毀 (OC *hmralʔ, *hmrals, “to demolish”) + semantic 米 (“rice”).
Original meaning to finely pound rice in a mortar.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: huǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: huěi
- Wade–Giles: hui3
- Yale: hwěi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoei
- Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: wai2
- Yale: wái
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai2
- Guangdong Romanization: wei2
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɐi̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: xjweX
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*hmralʔ/
Definitions
毇