to destroy / to damage / to ruin / to defame / to slander

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) wants to destroy (毁) a left over steel beam (工) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) and uses a halberd (殳) to pulverize it in a mortar (臼). During this process she does not only destroy the steel beam, but also the halberd.
variant of 毀|毁[hui3] / to destroy by fire / a blaze

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) wants to destroy (毁) a left over steel beam (工) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) and uses a halberd (殳) to pulverize it in a mortar (臼). During this process she does not only destroy the steel beam, but also the halberd.
variant of 毀|毁[hui3] / to defame / to slander

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) wants to destroy (毁) a left over steel beam (工) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) and uses a halberd (殳) to pulverize it in a mortar (臼). During this process she does not only destroy the steel beam, but also the halberd.
to destroy; to ruin / to defame; to slander
to destroy by fire

毁 character breakdown

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.
surname Shu
bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段[duan4], 毅[yi4], 殺|杀[sha1] etc

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu-) is practising his martial arts skills in front of the space station (-1). He's a specialist in the combined halberd (symbol for 殳) boxing style, and practises smashing tables (几) with his sucker punch (symbol for 又).
mortar

Joan of Arc (ji) uses a mortar (臼) to process some holy herbs in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).

Characters with 毁 as component

毁 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 毁

to destroy / to wreck
to destroy; to wreck
to destroy (by melting or burning) / to obliterate
to burn / to burn down
(of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash
to damage / to devastate / to vandalize / damage / destruction
to vilify / to slander / vilification
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to attack and destroy
to demolish; to tear down
to dismantle / to demolish
slander / libel / to malign / to disparage
to destroy / to smash
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
see 千里之堤,潰於蟻穴|千里之堤,溃于蚁穴[qian1 li3 zhi1 di1 , kui4 yu2 yi3 xue2]
meltdown / (of nuclear fuel) to melt down
to destroy; to smash

Sentences with 毁

nà
bì
mǎ
we̅n
dǎ
fa̅n
le
mǎ
tia̅n
ju̅n
 
 
dǎo
huǐ
le
yù
mǎ
jia̅n