滅
miè HSK6

extinguish

灭 (滅) miè
extinguish verb
to extinguish or put out (fire, light, etc.), or to go out

离开教室之前，请记得把所有的灯都灭掉。

lí​kāi jiào​shì zhī​qián, qǐng jì​de bǎ suǒ​yǒu de dēng dōu miè diào.

Please remember to turn off all the lights before leaving the classroom.

drown verb
to drown or be submerged in water

大水灭顶，情况万分紧急。

dà​shuǐ miè dǐng, qíng​kuàng wàn​fēn jǐn​jí.

The floods were overwhelming, and the situation was extremely urgent.

exterminate verb
to exterminate, wipe out, or destroy completely

这些害虫必须彻底消灭。

zhè​xiē hài​chóng bì​xū chè​dǐ xiāo​miè.

These pests must be completely eradicated.

Cross-References

Has old variant

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 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
灭
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6EC5

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