殄 — Chinese character
殄
tiǎn
to end; to exterminate
- Pinyin
- tiǎn
- Radical
- 78 ⽍ (Death)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 歹 㐱
- Formation
- pictophonetic — death; meaning component 歹; sound component 㐱
- Japanese
- 殄 as a kanji
Common words with 殄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暴殄天物 | bào tiǎn tiān wù | to waste natural resources recklessly; not to know how to use things sparingly |
殄 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.