烕

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

• 㓕, 𡟬, 搣, 滅, 𨻒, 𦄅, 𬵢, 𣹹

• 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

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.

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

烕

1. ^† 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.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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