毇

毇 U+6BC7, 毇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BC7 ← 毆 [U+6BC6] CJK Unified Ideographs 毈 → [U+6BC8]

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)

1. grind in a mortar, to grind or husk rice with a mortar and pestle
2. eight dou (斗) of rice

Derived terms

• 糳

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
simp. #		毇
alternative forms		𥶵 𥼹 𥵓 𥸃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 毇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
毀	*hmralʔ, *hmrals
燬	*hmralʔ
檓	*hmralʔ
毇	*hmralʔ
譭	*hmralʔ

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

  (Pinyin): huǐ (hui³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai²

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• 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai²
    • Yale: wái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjweX

Rime
Character	毇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (14)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許委切
Baxter	xjweX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiuᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷᵚiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjwiə̆X/
Li Rong	/xjueX/
Wang Li	/xǐweX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xwie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmralʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毇
Reading #	1/1
No.	5454
Phonetic component	毀
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	毀
Old Chinese	/*hmralʔ/

Definitions

毇

1. (obsolete) to pound rice in a mortar