miè

to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc)

HSK 6 #953

Character data

HSK 6
Frequency 953rd character
Radical ⽕ (86.1)
Strokes 5
Index # 223
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

灭 miè
  1. 1. to extinguish or put out
  2. 2. to go out (of a fire etc)
  3. 3. to exterminate or wipe out
  4. 4. to drown

Stroke order

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Words containing 灭

Word Meaning
wipe out a whole family; clan extermination
anxious to do battle (idiom)
genocide
genocide
to clear stubble from fields (agriculture)
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
to exterminate an entire family
to eliminate; to kill off
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
rat poison
on the brink of extinction
life and death
great extinction of species
Mutual Assured Destruction
genocide
to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom)
the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism
to wipe out; to exterminate
to fade away; to vanish; to disappear
diclofenac painkiller; also called fú tā lín
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