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蔑

miè

HSK 6 Character

What 蔑 means

1. to belittle
2. nothing

Other readings

蔑 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• mièdefiled with blood

Example sentences

• 你蔑视了目睹你罪行的仙女们，也蔑视了我を这位强大的潘神。
  You scorned both the Nymphs, who beheld your deeds, and me the mighty Pan.
• 最光明的处世方法是既蔑视社会的因袭，又过着与社会的因袭不相矛盾的生活。
  Zuì guāngmíng de chǔshì fāngfǎ shì jì mièshì shèhuì de yīnxí, yòu guo zhe yǔ shèhuì de yīnxí bù xiāng máodùn de shēnghuó.
  The most enlightened way of living is to despise social conventions while at the same time living your life in conformity to them.
• 自恋的人往往自命不凡，轻蔑和屈尊俯就于他人的意见，与此同时，对赞美和肯定有着迫切的需求。
  Zìliàn de rén wǎngwǎng zìmìng-bùfán, qīngmiè hé qūzūn-fǔjiù yú tārén de yìjiàn, yǔcǐtóngshí, duì zànměi hé kěndìng yǒuzhe pòqiè de xūqiú.
  Narcissists are often snobbish, disdainful and patronising of others' opinions, while, at the same time, having an overwhelming need for admiration and reassurance.

Words starting with 蔑

• 蔑视miè shìto loathe; to despise; contempt
• 蔑称miè chēngcontemptuous term

Words containing 蔑

• 污蔑wū mièto slander; to smear; to tarnish
• 轻蔑qīng mièscornful; disdainful; contemptuous; pejorative; disdain; contempt
• 诬蔑wū mièto slander; to smear; to vilify
• 侮蔑wǔ miècontempt; to despise

Characters that look like 蔑

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

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 煎jiānto pan fry; to sauté
• 罂yīngearthen jar with small mouth
• 蔗zhèsugar cane
• 箴zhēnto warn; to admonish; variant of 针
• 獒áo(bound form) mastiff

Sounds the same

Read miè, tone for tone, but written differently.

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