This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To smother 戊 a flame 灭; 灭 also provides the pronunciation

  • to destroy, to exterminate, to extinguish xuè
    • 11th terrestrial branch
      • 5th heavenly stem
        • 丿 slash piě
        • spear, lance, halberd
          • to catch, to arrest; to shoot with a bow
          • 丿 slash piě
      • one; a, an; alone
    • fire, flame; to burn; anger, rage huǒ

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