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. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
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 perish / to ruin / to destroy
to blow up / to destroy with explosives
destructive / devastating
to destroy / to smash / sabotage
to cause damage to / to ruin / to destroy
to tear up / to rip up / too shred
to disfigure / to spoil the beauty of
to break a promise / breach of contract
impair, damage
to injure / to damage
to collapse; to cave in
to raze to the ground / to demolish
(Internet slang) (of a situation, video clip etc) to make one think "wtf!"
destructive / crushing (defeat)
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)

Sentences with 毁

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