烕

烕 U+70D5, 烕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70D5 ← 烔 [U+70D4] CJK Unified Ideographs 烖 → [U+70D6]

Translingual

Han character

烕 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一火 (IHMF), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戌火 or ⿵戊灭)

Derived characters

• 㓕, 𡟬, 搣, 滅, 𨻒, 𦄅, 𬵢, 𣹹

References

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

Chinese

trad.		烕
simp. #		烕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
滅	*med
搣	*med
烕	*hmed
戌	*smid
珬	*smid
銊	*smid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hmed): phonetic 戌 (OC *smid) + semantic 火 (“fire”).

Shuowen considers this to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 戌 (“ninth month”) + 火 (“fire”), probably alluding to a passage in Huainanzi:

火生於寅，壯於午，死於戌 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
火生于寅，壮于午，死于戌 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

Huǒ shēng yú yín, zhuàng yú wǔ, sǐ yú xū [Pinyin]

[The element] fire is born in the first month, is strong in the fifth month, and dies in the ninth month.

Etymology

Cognate with 滅 (OC *med); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miè, xuè (mie⁴, xue⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ, ㄒㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miè
    • Wade–Giles: mieh⁴
    • Yale: myè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
    • Palladius: ме (me)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuè
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh⁴
    • Yale: sywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiueh
    • Palladius: сюэ (sjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mit⁶
    • Yale: miht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: xjwet

Rime
Character	烕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	薛 (84)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許劣切
Baxter	xjwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷᵚiet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwiat̚/
Li Rong	/xjuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/xĭuɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥et/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmed/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	烕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuè
Middle Chinese	‹ xjwiet ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥et/
English	extinguish, destroy
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	烕
Reading #	1/1
No.	13944
Phonetic component	戌
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𥄎
Old Chinese	/*hmed/
Notes	戌轉註分化

Definitions

烕

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 滅／灭 (miè, “to extinguish; to destroy”).

   赫赫宗周，褒姒烕之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

   From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Hèhè Zōngzhōu, Bāo Sì miè zhī. [Pinyin]

   But the majestic honoured capital of Zhou,
   Is being destroyed by Si of Bao.

Japanese

Kanji

烕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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