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消灭

xiāo miè

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 消滅

消灭 (xiāo miè) means "to eliminate; to wipe out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 消灭 means

1. to put an end to
2. to annihilate
3. to cause to perish
4. to perish
5. annihilation (in quantum field theory)

The characters in 消灭

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out

Example sentences

• 他们奋斗的目标是消灭天花。
  Tāmen fèndòu de mùbiāo shì xiāomiè tiānhuā.
  They are struggling with the goal of wiping out smallpox.
• 奥陶纪—志留纪灭绝事件消灭了近 85% 的海洋物种。
  The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction Event wiped out nearly 85% of marine species.

Where 消灭 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Throwing, Consuming & Disappearing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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