销 xiāo
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 钅 — gold, metal
- Made of
- 钅 gold, metal 肖 to resemble, to look like
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
销毁
xiāohuǐ
to destroy; to dispose of officially
Characters in this word
毁 huǐ
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 殳 — tool, weapon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 海关依法销毁了一批不合格进口食品，并公布了检测结果。 Hǎiguān yīfǎ xiāohuǐ le yì pī bù hégé jìnkǒu shípǐn, bìng gōngbù le jiǎncè jiéguǒ. Customs destroyed a batch of substandard imported food in accordance with the law and released the test results.
- 过期的文件必须按规定销毁。 Guòqī de wénjiàn bìxū àn guīdìng xiāohuǐ. Expired documents must be destroyed according to the rules.
- 他把旧日记撕碎，然后全部销毁了。 Tā bǎ jiù rìjì sī suì, ránhòu quánbù xiāohuǐ le. He tore his old diary to pieces and then destroyed it all.
Related words
- 促销 cùxiāo sale; promotion
- 推销 tuīxiāo to promote and sell
- 销售 xiāoshòu sales; to sell
- 畅销 chàngxiāo to sell well
- 撤销 chèxiāo to cancel, to abolish
- 报销 bàoxiāo to reimburse; to claim expenses
- 吊销 diàoxiāo to revoke; to cancel a licence or permit
- 开销 kāixiāo expenses; expenditure
- 倾销 qīngxiāo to dump goods; dumping
- 热销 rèxiāo to sell well; to be hot-selling
- 销 xiāo to sell; to market; to cancel
- 营销 yíngxiāo marketing; to market