滅 hanja, meaning extinguish, read 멸 (myeol)
Reading
extinguish; wipe out, exterminate
꺼질 멸kkeojil myeol
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 꺼질 (kkeojil) is the Korean for extinguish, and 멸 (myeol) is the reading. Say 꺼질 멸 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⽔ 85
- Beyond radical
- 10
- Mandarin
- miè
- Japanese on
- metsu
- Japanese kun
- horobiru
Vocabulary
Words that use 滅
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self-destruction, self-slaughter
Character by character self + extinguish
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.