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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)

灭
miè
to extinguish; to wipe out
HSK 6 5 丶

Compound Words (20)

绝灭
juémiè
to annihilate
灭绝
mièjué
to extinguish
灭顶
mièdǐng
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
灭门
mièmén
to exterminate an entire family
灭茬
mièchá
to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)
灭菌
mièjūn
to sterilize
吞灭
tūnmiè
to absorb
隐灭
yǐnmiè
to fade away
磨灭
mómiè
to obliterate
破灭
pòmiè
to be shattered
夷灭
yímiè
to massacre
寂灭
jìmiè
to die out
生灭
shēngmiè
life and death
已灭
yǐmiè
extinct
幻灭
huànmiè
to disillusion
熄灭
xīmiè
to stop burning
HSK 6
扑灭
pūmiè
to eradicate
攻灭
gōngmiè
to conquer
断灭
duànmiè
annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
诛灭
zhūmiè
to wipe out

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
952
Word Frequency Rank
1,856 of 84,292

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