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灭

miè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character Traditional 滅

灭 (miè) means "to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灭 means

1. to extinguish or put out
2. to go out (of a fire etc)
3. to exterminate or wipe out
4. to drown

Example sentences

• 火熄灭了。
  Huǒ xīmiè le.
  The fire was out.
• 灯自己灭了。
  The light went out by itself.
• 灯突然灭了。
  Suddenly, the light went out.
• 火已经灭了。
  The fire has gone out.
• 火自然熄灭了。
  Huǒ zìrán xīmiè le.
  The fire went out by itself.
• 蜡烛自然熄灭。
  Làzhú zìrán xīmiè.
  The candle went out by itself.

Words starting with 灭

• 灭亡miè wángto be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
• 灭绝miè juéto become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely; to exterminate
• 灭火miè huǒto extinguish a fire; firefighting
• 灭火器miè huǒ qìfire extinguisher
• 灭顶之灾miè dǐng zhī zāi(idiom) catastrophic disaster; devastating calamity
• 灭口miè kǒuto kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret; to silence sb
• 灭国miè guóto destroy a country; to wipe a nation off the map
• 灭团miè tuán(video gaming) to wipe out an entire team or party
• 灭失miè shīloss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law)
• 灭度miè dùto extinguish worries and the sea of grief; nirvana (Buddhism)
• 灭掉miè diàoto eliminate
• 灭族miè zúextermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
• 灭杀miè shāto kill; to exterminate (pests, bacteria etc)
• 灭活miè huóto inactivate (a virus etc)
• 灭种miè zhǒngto commit genocide; to become extinct; extinction of a race
• 灭门miè ménto exterminate an entire family
• 灭除miè chúto eliminate; to kill off
• 灭顶miè dǐngto be drowned (figurative and literal)
• 灭种罪miè zhǒng zuìgenocide
• 灭音器miè yīn qìmuffler (of an internal combustion engine)
• 灭绝人性miè jué rén xìng(idiom) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
• 灭绝种族miè jué zhǒng zúto commit genocide
• 灭此朝食miè cǐ zhāo shílit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed; anxious to do battle (idiom)
• 灭虫宁miè chóng nìngbephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine

Words containing 灭

• 消灭xiāo mièto put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish
• 毁灭huǐ mièto perish; to ruin; to destroy
• 熄灭xī mièto stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out
• 破灭pò mièto be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
• 歼灭jiān mièto wipe out; to crush; to annihilate
• 扑灭pū mièto eradicate; to extinguish
• 毁灭性huǐ miè xìngdestructive; devastating
• 泯灭mǐn mièto obliterate; to die out; to disappear
• 幻灭huàn miè(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate; (of a person) to become disillusioned…
• 磨灭mó mièto obliterate; to erase
• 灰飞烟灭huī fēi yān mièlit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated…
• 覆灭fù mièdestruction
• 自生自灭zì shēng zì mièto emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom)
• 不可磨灭bù kě mó mièindelible
• 吹灭chuī mièto blow out (a flame)
• 湮灭yān mièto sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity
• 团灭tuán miè(video gaming) (of an entire team or party) to get wiped out
• 攻灭gōng mièto conquer; to defeat (militarily)
• 断灭duàn mièannihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
• 族灭zú mièto execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
• 明灭míng mièto flicker; to flash on and off; to brighten and fade
• 杀灭shā mièto exterminate
• 生灭shēng mièlife and death
• 绝灭jué mièto annihilate; to exterminate; extinction

Characters that look like 灭

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 关guānmountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up…
• 亚yàsecond; next to; inferior
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 买mǎito buy; to purchase
• 矢shǐarrow; dart; straight

Sounds the same

Read miè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蔑to belittle; nothing
• 篾the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip
• 搣(literary) to pull out; to remove; (literary) to massage
• 蠛used in 蠛蠓
• 幭carriage cover
• 懱variant of 蔑
• 烕old variant of 灭

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read miè correctly.
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