灭
miè HSK6

extinguish

灭 滅 miè
to exterminate verb
to wipe out or cause to stop existing; to destroy or eliminate completely

他们被猎杀几乎灭绝。

tā​men bèi liè shā jī​hū miè jué.

They were hunted almost to extinction.

to extinguish verb
to put out a fire or light; to go out or stop burning

别让蜡烛灭了。

bié ràng là​zhú miè le.

Don't let the candle go out.

to disappear verb
to vanish or cease to be; to die out
to submerge
to drown or be covered by water
to defeat
(slang) to beat an opponent; to crush

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Frequency
Character
Written text
953rd most common 176.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,169th most common 75.7 per million appears in 29% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.0 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
26.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
滅
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+706D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)