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滅

miè

extinguish

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 烕 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

烕 sound,meaning component

烕  Sound Meaning component

miè

  

extinguish

Evolution

滅 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
滅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滅 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
滅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

灭 (滅) 

miè

extinguish; wipe out, exterminate; to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown

Most common words with 滅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

灭

to drown

消灭

to put an end to

毁灭

to perish

灭亡

to be destroyed

灭绝

to extinguish

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]et

mjiet

miè

destroy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 28.8003% of movies

1169th most common character in movies

953rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

灭

Unicode

U+6EC5

Shuowen

“滅，盡也。从水，烕聲。”


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