灭 (滅) miè
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miè
verb
to destroy; to wipe out; to exterminate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (FE '滅' 1; Guoyu '滅' v 2; Unihan '滅') -
miè
verb
to submerge
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 淹没 (Guoyu '滅' v 4) -
miè
verb
to extinguish; to put out
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 熄掉, for example 滅火 'extinguish a fire' (FE '滅' 2; Guoyu '滅' v 1; Unihan '滅') -
miè
verb
to eliminate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 除绝 (Guoyu '滅' v 2) -
miè
verb
to disappear; to fade away
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 消失 or 消逝 (Guoyu '滅' v 3)
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- 吞灭(吞滅) to absorb
- 灭绝人性(滅絕人性) to be devoid of all humanity; inhuman; bestial
- 灭国弑君(滅國弒君) destroy the state and kill the ruler
- 兴灭继绝(興滅繼絕) to restore the state and revive old families; to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten
- 半明不灭(半明不滅) dull (lamplight)
- 消灭(消滅) to annihilate; to eliminate; to pass away ; annihilation
- 剪灭(剪滅) exterminate
- 淹灭(淹滅) to submerge; to flood; to bury
- 灭绝(滅絕) to extinguish; to become extinct; to die out
- 攻灭(攻滅) to conquer; to defeat (militarily)
- 扑灭(撲滅) to pull out
- 息灭(息滅) to extinguish; to put out
- 灭茬(滅茬) to clear stubble from fields
- 磨灭(磨滅) to obliterate; to erase
- 灭此朝食(滅此朝食) not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed; anxious to do battle
- 人不为己,天诛地灭(人不為己,天誅地滅) Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you.
- 泯灭(泯滅) to obliterate; to die out; to disappear
- 隐灭(隱滅) to fade away; to vanish; to disappear
- 灭国(滅國) destruction of a state
- 相灭相生(相滅相生) destroying each other and giving rise to each other
- 灭火器(滅火器) fire extinguisher
- 击灭(擊滅) to destroy
- 打灭(打滅) to abandon; to spurn; to forsake
- 除灭(除滅) to eliminate
- 亡国灭种(亡國滅種) country destroyed, its people annihilated; total destruction
- 前功尽灭(前功盡滅) previous work all destroyed
- 杀灭(殺滅) to exterminate
- 濒灭(瀕滅) on the brink of extinction
- 毁灭性(毀滅性) destructive; devastating
- 灭火(滅火) to extinguish a fire; firefighting
- 灭种(滅種) to commit genocide; to become extinct; extinction of a race
- 覆灭(覆滅) to destroy
- 宠妾灭妻(寵妾滅妻) favor the concubine and do away with the wife; spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
- 歼灭(殲滅) to annihilate ; to disappear
- 殄灭(殄滅) to completely destroy
- 断灭(斷滅) annihilate
- 大灭绝(大滅絕) mass extinction
- 不可磨灭(不可磨滅) indelible
- 自取灭亡(自取滅亡) to court disaster; to seek one's own destruction
- 双氯灭痛(雙氯滅痛) diclofenac painkiller; also called 扶他林
- 勦灭(勦滅) to exterminate
- 销灭(銷滅) to perish; to annihilate; to eliminate; to perish; to pass away
- 灭种罪(滅種罪) genocide
- 绝灭(絕滅) to annihilate
- 假途灭虢(假途滅虢) a short-cut to crush the state of Guo
- 以公灭私(以公滅私) with fair disposition, dispelling selfishness
- 不灭(不滅) not being extinguished ; not being wiped out; surviving
- 灭除(滅除) to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
- 灭门(滅門) to exterminate an entire family
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- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 39
- 卷二十七下之下 五行志 Volume 27e: Treatise on the Five Elements 5 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
- 卷二十八下 地理志 Volume 28b: Treatise on Geography 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
- 卷三十六 志第十六: 天文下 Volume 36 Treatises 16: Astronomy 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 34
- 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 28
- 卷三十二 志第二十二 天文二 Volume 32 Treatises 26: Astronomy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 26
- 《楚世家》 House of Chu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 26
- 《晉世家》 House of Jin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 23
- 僖公 Lord Xi Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳 — count: 23
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 23
Collocations
- 师灭 (師滅) 齊師滅譚 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 15
- 人灭 (人滅) 楚人滅弦 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 12
- 遂灭 (遂滅) 遂滅息 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 11
- 灭舒 (滅舒) 楚人滅舒蓼 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 5
- 楚灭 (楚滅) 楚滅黃 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
- 吴灭 (吳滅) 吳滅州來 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
- 尽灭 (儘滅) 盡滅其族 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
- 灭陈 (滅陳) 楚師滅陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 灭蔡 (滅蔡) 楚師滅蔡 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 侯灭 (侯滅) 楚子以蔡侯滅息 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3