溃潰 in English
- (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike / (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement) / (bound form) to be routed / to be overrun / to fall to pieces / (bound form) to fester / to ulcerate
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 潰, the traditional character: 溃 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).