滅
滅 — myeol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 꺼질/멸할 멸
- Romanization
- myeol
- English
- extinguish; wipe out, exterminate
- Mandarin
- miè
- Japanese on'yomi
- メツ, ベツ, メチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ほろ.びる ほろ.ぶ ほろ.ぼす
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,222 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 水 (85, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6EC5
Words written with 滅
- 상멸喪滅 없어지는 일
- 멸망滅亡 망하여 없어짐
- 소멸消滅 사라져 없어짐
- 토멸討滅 쳐서 없애 버림
- 점멸漸滅 점점 멸망하여 감
- 잔멸殘滅 쇠잔하여 다 없어짐
- 명멸明滅 불이 켜졌다 꺼졌다 함
- 민멸泯滅 자취나 흔적이 아주 없어짐
- 자멸自滅 스스로 자신을 망치거나 멸망함
- 전멸全滅 모조리 죽거나 망하거나 하여 없어짐
- 기멸起滅 생겨남과 없어짐. 또는 시작함과 끝남
- 괴멸壞滅 조직이나 체계 따위가 모조리 파괴되어 멸망함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 滅
- 絶滅ぜつめつ extinction; extermination; eradication
- 消滅しょうめつ extinction; extinguishment; disappearance
- 壊滅かいめつ (complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation
- 撲滅ぼくめつ eradication; extermination; destruction
- 破滅はめつ ruin; destruction; fall
- 隠滅いんめつ destruction (esp. of evidence); spoliation; suppression
- 自滅じめつ self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay
- 滅亡めつぼう downfall; ruin; collapse
- 不滅ふめつ immortal; undying; indestructible
- 滅びるほろびる to go to ruin; to go under; to fall
- 点滅てんめつ switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking
- 全滅ぜんめつ total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)