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Translingual

Han character

(radical 79 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹土竹弓水 (HGHNE), four-corner 77147, composition ⿹⿰)

  1. destroy, ruin, injure
  2. to slander

References

  • KangXi: page 586, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16654
  • Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 3, page 2162, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6BC0

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*hmralʔ, *hmrals
*hmralʔ
*hmralʔ
*hmralʔ
*hmralʔ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuei²¹⁴/
Harbin /xuei²¹³/
Tianjin /xuei¹³/
Jinan /xuei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /xue⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /xuei⁵³/
Xi'an /xuei⁵³/
Xining /xuɨ⁵³/
Yinchuan /xuei⁵³/
Lanzhou /xuei⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /xuei⁵¹/
Wuhan /xuei⁴²/
Chengdu /xuei⁵³/
Guiyang /xuei⁴²/
Kunming /xuei⁵³/
Nanjing /xuəi²¹²/
Hefei /xue²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /xuei⁵³/
Pingyao /xuei⁵³/
Hohhot /xuei⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /hue³⁵/
Suzhou /hue̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /hui⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕy⁴²/
Hui Shexian /xue³⁵/
Tunxi /xuə²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ɸəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /fɨi²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰui³¹/
Taoyuan /fui³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐi³⁵/
Nanning /wɐi³⁵/
Hong Kong /wɐi³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kui⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huoi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xo²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hũi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ui²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (14)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hˠiuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hjwiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/xjueX/
Wang
Li
/xǐweX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xwie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjweX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m̥](r)ajʔ/
English demolish

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5451 5456
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hmralʔ/ /*hmrals/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 毀傷毁伤
  • 毀壞毁坏 (huǐhuài)
  • 毀害毁害
  • 毀家紓難毁家纾难

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hwe) (hangeul , revised hwe, McCune-Reischauer hwe, Yale hwey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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