HSK 6 · Verbs

销毁 xiāohuǐ “to destroy (by burning or melting)” in Chinese

Traditional 銷毀

What 销毁 means

  1. to destroy (by burning or melting)
  2. to destroy (by melting or burning)
  3. to obliterate

How to say 销毁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale销xiāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale毁huǐ3rd tone, dipping

销毁 in a sentence

  1. 这则讯息将在五秒后自动销毁。

    Zhè zé xùnxī jiāng zài wǔ miǎo hòu zìdòng xiāohuǐ.

    This message will self-destruct in five seconds.

    Sentence #4813513 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 销毁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 销 (xiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
销xiāoto melt
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 肖to resemble · xiàoSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 肖 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāo.

The character 毁 (huǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
毁huǐto destroy; to ruin
  • 臼mortar · jiù
  • 工work · gōng
  • 殳weapon · shū

How to write 销毁

销 12 strokes · 毁 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

销毁 (xiāohuǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 销毁 (xiāohuǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 销毁

Words with 销

销售xiāoshòu · to sell撤销chèxiāo · to cancel报销bàoxiāo · to claim reimbursement畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling推销tuīxiāo · to promote

Words with 毁

毁灭huǐmiè · to destroy

More words: Common Verbs

陷入xiànrù · to fall into削xiāo · to peel消除xiāochú · to eliminate消耗xiāohào · to consume消灭xiāomiè · to wipe out携带xiédài · to carry (on one’s person)协助xiézhù · to assist熄灭xīmiè · to go out

FAQs

销毁 (xiāohuǐ) means “to destroy (by burning or melting)” or “to destroy (by melting or burning)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiāohuǐ: xiāo with a 1st tone, then huǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 销毁 is written 銷毀. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaohui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 销毁 from the suggestions. Typing xiaohui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
销毁 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.