Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
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灭 | 滅 | miè | - to extinguish or put out - to go out (of a fire etc) - to exterminate or wipe out - to drown |
剿灭 | 剿滅 | jiǎomiè | - to eliminate (by armed force) |
吞灭 | 吞滅 | tūnmiè | - to absorb |
夷灭 | 夷滅 | yímiè | - to massacre - to die out |
寂灭 | 寂滅 | jìmiè | - to die out - to fade away - nirvana (Buddhism) |
已灭 | 已滅 | yǐmiè | - extinct |
幻灭 | 幻滅 | huànmiè | - to disillusion - disillusionment - vanishing (illusions, hopes, aspirations etc) |
扑灭 | 撲滅 | pūmiè | - to eradicate - to extinguish |
攻灭 | 攻滅 | gōngmiè | - to conquer - to defeat (militarily) |
断灭 | 斷滅 | duànmiè | - annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) |
族灭 | 族滅 | zúmiè | - to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) |
明灭 | 明滅 | míngmiè | - to flicker - to flash on and off - to brighten and fade |
歼灭 | 殲滅 | jiānmiè | - to wipe out - to crush - to annihilate |
杀灭 | 殺滅 | shāmiè | - to exterminate |
毁灭 | 毀滅 | huǐmiè | - to perish - to ruin - to destroy |
泯灭 | 泯滅 | mǐnmiè | - to obliterate - to die out - to disappear |
消灭 | 消滅 | xiāomiè | - to put an end to - to annihilate - to cause to perish - to perish - annihilation (in quantum field theory) |
沦灭 | 淪滅 | lúnmiè | - to perish - extinction |
淹灭 | 淹滅 | yānmiè | - to submerge - to flood - to bury |
湮灭 | 湮滅 | yīnmiè | - to destroy - to disappear - annihilation |
灭亡 | 滅亡 | mièwáng | - to be destroyed - to become extinct - to perish - to die out - to destroy - to exterminate |
灭口 | 滅口 | mièkǒu | - to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret - to silence sb |
灭失 | 滅失 | mièshī | - loss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law) |
灭度 | 滅度 | mièdù | - to extinguish worries and the sea of grief - nirvana (Buddhism) |
灭掉 | 滅掉 | mièdiào | - to eliminate |
灭族 | 滅族 | mièzú | - extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment) |
灭火 | 滅火 | mièhuǒ | - to extinguish a fire - firefighting |
灭种 | 滅種 | mièzhǒng | - to commit genocide - to become extinct - extinction of a race |
灭绝 | 滅絕 | mièjué | - to extinguish - to become extinct - to die out |
灭茬 | 滅茬 | mièchá | - to clear stubble from fields (agriculture) |
灭菌 | 滅菌 | mièjūn | - to sterilize |
灭门 | 滅門 | mièmén | - to exterminate an entire family |
灭除 | 滅除 | mièchú | - to eliminate - to kill off |
灭顶 | 滅頂 | mièdǐng | - to be drowned (figurative and literal) |
濒灭 | 瀕滅 | bīnmiè | - on the brink of extinction |
熄灭 | 熄滅 | xīmiè | - to stop burning - to go out (of fire) - to die out - extinguished |
生灭 | 生滅 | shēngmiè | - life and death |
破灭 | 破滅 | pòmiè | - to be shattered - to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc) |
磨灭 | 磨滅 | mómiè | - to obliterate - to erase |
绝灭 | 絕滅 | juémiè | - to annihilate - to exterminate - extinction |
覆灭 | 覆滅 | fùmiè | - destruction |
诛灭 | 誅滅 | zhūmiè | - to wipe out - to exterminate |
隐灭 | 隱滅 | yǐnmiè | - to fade away - to vanish - to disappear |
大灭绝 | 大滅絕 | dàmièjué | - mass extinction |
大绝灭 | 大絕滅 | dàjuémiè | - mass extinction |
断灭论 | 斷滅論 | duànmièlùn | - annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) |
毁灭性 | 毀滅性 | huǐmièxìng | - destructive - devastating |
灭火器 | 滅火器 | mièhuǒqì | - fire extinguisher |
灭种罪 | 滅種罪 | mièzhǒngzuì | - genocide |
灭虫宁 | 滅蟲寧 | mièchóngnìng | - bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine |
灭音器 | 滅音器 | mièyīnqì | - muffler (of an internal combustion engine) |
灭鼠药 | 滅鼠藥 | mièshǔyào | - rat poison |
不可磨灭 | 不可磨滅 | bùkěmómiè | - indelible |
亡国灭种 | 亡國滅種 | wángguómièzhǒng | - country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction |
假途灭虢 | 假途滅虢 | jiǎtúmièGuó | - lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner |
半明不灭 | 半明不滅 | bànmíngbùmiè | - dull (lamplight) |
大义灭亲 | 大義滅親 | dàyìmièqīn | - to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it |
宠妾灭妻 | 寵妾滅妻 | chǒngqièmièqī | - favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) - spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife |
扶清灭洋 | 扶清滅洋 | fúQīngmièyáng | - Support the Qing, annihilate the West! (Boxer rebellion slogan) |
灭此朝食 | 滅此朝食 | miècǐzhāoshí | - lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed - anxious to do battle (idiom) |
灭绝人性 | 滅絕人性 | mièjuérénxìng | - savage - cannibalistic |
灭绝种族 | 滅絕種族 | mièjuézhǒngzú | - genocide |
灰飞烟灭 | 灰飛煙滅 | huīfēiyānmiè | - lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) - fig. to be annihilated - to vanish in a puff of smoke |
种族灭绝 | 種族滅絕 | zhǒngzúmièjué | - genocide |
自取灭亡 | 自取滅亡 | zìqǔmièwáng | - to court disaster (idiom) - to dig one's own grave |
自生自灭 | 自生自滅 | zìshēngzìmiè | - to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom) |
兴灭继绝 | 興滅繼絕 | xīngmièjìjué | - lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) - fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten |
苦集灭道 | 苦集滅道 | kǔjímièdào | - the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 - also called 四諦|四谛 |
双氯灭痛 | 雙氯滅痛 | shuānglǜmiètòng | - diclofenac pain-killer - also called 扶他林 |
生物大灭绝 | 生物大滅絕 | shēngwùdàmièjué | - great extinction of species |
相互保证毁灭 | 相互保證毀滅 | XiānghùBǎozhèngHuǐmiè | - Mutual Assured Destruction |
人不为己,天诛地灭 | 人不為己,天誅地滅 | rénbùwèijǐ,tiānzhūdìmiè | - Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. - Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. |
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