Chinese symbol for “perish”
毁灭
huǐ miè
Traditional: 毀滅
to perish; to ruin; to destroy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for perish is 毁灭 (huǐ miè), defined as: to perish; to ruin; to destroy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “perish”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遇难 (遇難) | yù nàn | to perish; to be killed |
| 灭亡 (滅亡) | miè wáng | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate |
| 沦亡 (淪亡) | lún wáng | (of a country) to perish; to be annexed |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 沦丧 (淪喪) | lún sàng | to be lost; to be ruined |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 毁灭.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 摧毁 (摧毀) | cuī huǐ | to destroy; to wreck |
| 烧毁 (燒燬) | shāo huǐ | to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire |
| 销毁 (銷毀) | xiāo huǐ | to destroy (by melting or burning); to obliterate |
| 坠毁 (墜毀) | zhuì huǐ | (of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash |
| 毁坏 (毀壞) | huǐ huài | to damage; to devastate |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 灭亡 (滅亡) | miè wáng | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate |
| 灭绝 (滅絕) | miè jué | to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely |
See also: Japanese symbol for “perish”.
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.