miè

extinguish

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

烕 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

miè

  

extinguish

Evolution

滅 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
滅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滅 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
滅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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miè

extinguish; wipe out, exterminate; to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown

Most common words with 滅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to drown

消灭

to put an end to

毁灭

to perish

灭亡

to be destroyed

灭绝

to extinguish

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]et

mjiet

miè

destroy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 28.8003% of movies

1169th most common character in movies

953rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+6EC5

Shuowen

“滅,盡也。从水,烕聲。”


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