烕

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戌 + 火 (“fire”), essentially 戈 + 火: to take an ax to the fire, to destroy (extinguish) the fire.

Han character

烕 (radical 86 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一火 (IHMF), composition ⿵戌火)

1. to destroy
2. to exterminate, to extinguish

Derived characters

• 滅

References

• KangXi: page 670, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19007
• Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1405, character 18
• Unihan data for U+70D5

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Japanese

Kanji

烕

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu), けち (kechi), べつ (betsu)
• Kun: ほろびる (horobiru), ほろぼす (horobosu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

烕 (pinyin xuè (xue4), Wade-Giles hsüeh⁴)

Last modified on 18 March 2013, at 18:59