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熄灭

xī miè

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

熄灭 (xī miè) means "to stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 熄灭 means

1. to stop burning
2. to go out (of fire)
3. to die out
4. extinguished

The characters in 熄灭

• 熄xīto extinguish; to put out (fire); to quench
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out

Example sentences

• 火熄灭了。
  Huǒ xīmiè le.
  The fire was 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.

Where 熄灭 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wù–xī (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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