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淹灭

yān miè

2-character word Traditional 淹滅

What 淹灭 means

1. to submerge
2. to flood
3. to bury

The characters in 淹灭

• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out

Sounds the same

Read yān miè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 湮灭to sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity

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