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灭
滅
miè
1.
to extinguish or put out
2.
to go out (of a fire etc)
3.
to exterminate or wipe out
4.
to drown
Very Common • Top 2%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
剿灭
jiǎomiè
to eliminate (by armed force)
吞灭
tūnmiè
to absorb
夷灭
yímiè
to massacre
寂灭
jìmiè
to die out
已灭
yǐmiè
extinct
幻灭
huànmiè
to disillusion
扑灭
pūmiè
to eradicate
攻灭
gōngmiè
to conquer
断灭
duànmiè
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
族灭
zúmiè
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
明灭
míngmiè
to flicker
歼灭
jiānmiè
to wipe out
杀灭
shāmiè
to exterminate
毁灭
huǐmiè
to perish
泯灭
mǐnmiè
to obliterate
消灭
xiāomiè
to put an end to
沦灭
lúnmiè
to perish
淹灭
yānmiè
to submerge
湮灭
yīnmiè
to destroy
灭亡
mièwáng
to be destroyed
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 952
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,856 of 84,292