# 烕

| 烕 | U+70D5, &#28885; 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 5320$_0$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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:
       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 (mie$^4$, xue$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ, ㄒㄩㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mit$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miè
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miè
*** Wade–Giles: mieh$^4$
*** Yale: myè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
*** Palladius: ме (me)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuè
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuè
*** Wade–Giles: hsüeh$^4$
*** Yale: sywè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiueh
*** Palladius: сюэ (sjue)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mit$^6$
*** Yale: miht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mit$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mid$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /miːt̚²/
* 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 | hyut$^3$ |
* 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
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 滅／灭 (miè, “to extinguish; to destroy”).
       From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th 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

(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)