灭绝 (miè jué): meaning and stroke order
灭绝 (miè jué) means to become extinct; to die out, to lose (sth abstract) completely, to exterminate.
灭绝
- Simplified
- 灭绝
- Traditional
- 滅絕
- Pinyin
- miè jué
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Stroke order of 灭绝
灭
- miè to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc)
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 滅
Stroke by stroke
绝
- jué to cut short; extinct
- jué variant of 絕|绝[jue2]
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 絕
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Meaning of 灭绝
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miè jué
Traditional 滅絕
- to become extinct; to die out
- to lose (sth abstract) completely
- to exterminate
Radicals of the characters
- 灭
- Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 5 strokes · 一 on top, 火 below
- 绝
- Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 纟 on the left, 色 on the right
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.
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).