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灭 (miè): meaning and stroke order

灭 (miè) means to extinguish or put out, to go out (of a fire etc), to exterminate or wipe out, to drown.

灭

Simplified
灭
Traditional
滅
Pinyin
miè

Stroke order of 灭

灭

  • miè to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 滅

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 灭

  1. miè Traditional 滅
    • to extinguish or put out
    • to go out (of a fire etc)
    • to exterminate or wipe out
    • to drown

Radical and structure

灭
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 5 strokes · 一 on top, 火 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 灭

  • 灭绝 miè jué to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely

灭 in our stories

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  • 大火灭了，洪水退了，人们终于又过上了平静的日子。

    dàhuǒ miè le hóngshuǐ tuì le rénmen zhōngyú yòu guò shàng le píngjìng de rìzi

    The fires went out, the floods receded, and people could at last live in peace again.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 大火烧了三天三夜，却始终没有人走出来。火灭后，人们在一棵烧焦的柳树下，发现了母子两人的遗体。

    dàhuǒ shāo le sān tiān sān yè què shǐzhōng méiyǒu rén zǒu chūlai huǒ miè hòu rénmen zài yì kē shāojiāo de liǔshù xià fāxiàn le mǔzǐ liǎng rén de yítǐ

    The fire burned for three days and three nights, yet nobody ever came out. When it died down, they found mother and son dead beneath a scorched willow.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 灭

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).