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毁灭

huǐ miè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 毀滅

毁灭 (huǐ miè) means "to perish; to ruin; to destroy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 毁灭 means

1. to perish
2. to ruin
3. to destroy

The characters in 毁灭

• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out

Example sentences

• 改变同时蕴含着新生与毁灭。
  Transformation is birth and death at the same time.
• 没有你的话，我的生命就毁灭了。
  Méiyǒu nǐ dehuà, wǒ de shēngmìng jiù huǐmiè le.
  Life's a ruin without you.
• 一场毁灭性的地震袭击了这个州的首府。
  Yī chǎng huǐmièxìng de dìzhèn xíjī le zhège zhōu de shǒufǔ.
  A devastating earthquake hit the state capital.
• 在人类自我毁灭的边缘，第一次接触成了福音。
  Zài rénlèi zìwǒ huǐmiè de biānyuán, dìyīcì jiēchù chéngle fúyīn.
  First Contact became humanity's salvation as it was at the brink of self-destruction.
• 人不是为失败而生的, 一个人可以被毁灭, 但不能给打败。
  Rén bù shì wèi shībài ér shēng de, yīgèrén kěyǐ bèi huǐmiè, dàn bù néng gěi dǎbài.
  But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
• 如果人类不好好保护大自然，大自然说不定会反过来把人类毁灭。
  Rúguǒ rénlèi bù hǎohǎo bǎohù dàzìrán, dàzìrán shuōbudìng huì fǎnguolái bǎ rénlèi huǐmiè.
  If mankind doesn't take care of the environment, the environment may eliminate mankind.

Words starting with 毁灭

• 毁灭性huǐ miè xìngdestructive; devastating

Words containing 毁灭

• 相互保证毁灭xiāng hù bǎo zhèng huǐ mièmutual assured destruction

Where 毁灭 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huí–hùn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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