Chinese symbol for “extinguished”
熄灭
xī miè
Traditional: 熄滅
to stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out; extinguished
The closest CC-CEDICT match for extinguished is 熄灭 (xī miè), defined as: to stop burning; to go out (of fire); to die out; extinguished.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “extinguished”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汩 | gǔ | confused; extinguished |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 熄灭.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 熄灯 (熄燈) | xī dēng | turn out the lights; lights out |
| 熄火 | xī huǒ | (of fire, lamp etc) to go out; to put out (fire) |
| 吹熄 | chuī xī | to blow out (a flame) |
| 智熄 | zhì xī | (slang) extremely foolish; beyond stupid (pun on 窒息 (zhì xī)) |
| 熄屏 | xī píng | variant of 息屏 (xī píng) |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 毁灭 (毀滅) | huǐ miè | to perish; to ruin |
| 灭亡 (滅亡) | miè wáng | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.