Chinese Character Wiki
蔑

miè

disdain

Depicts a person with eyebrows (眉) being struck by a weapon (戍). 眉 also represents the sound.

Components
眉 sound,iconic component

眉  Sound Iconic component

méi

  

eyebrows

Depicts the person's eyebrows.

戍 iconic component

戍  Iconic component

shù

  

defend borders

Depicts a person being struck by a weapon.

Evolution

蔑 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
蔑 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
蔑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蔑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蔑  

miè

disdain, disregard; slight; to belittle; nothing

蔑 (衊) 

miè

defiled with blood

Most common words with 蔑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蔑视

to loathe

轻蔑

to contempt

诬蔑

to slander

污蔑

to slander

蔑

nothing

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

衊

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

襪 衊 蠛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤet

met

miè

destroy; not have


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6269% of movies

2852nd most common character in movies

2575th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8511

Shuowen

“蔑，勞，目無精也。从，人勞則蔑然，从戍。”


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