滅 — Chinese character
滅
miè
to extinguish; to wipe out
- Pinyin
- miè
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 烕
- Formation
- ideographic — To extinguish a flame 烕 with water 氵; 烕 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 灭
- Japanese
- 滅 as a kanji
滅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 2 · I Ching 4 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 16
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 39
- Analects 6.12
- Analects 20.1
- Hexagram 21
- Hexagram 28
- Mencius 3B.9
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.