灭滅 in English
- to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 滅, the traditional character: 灭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一口气吹灭生日蛋糕上所有的蜡烛。
Blow out all the candles on the birthday cake at once.
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一场毁灭性的地震袭击了这个州的首府。
A devastating earthquake hit the state capital.
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人不是为失败而生的, 一个人可以被毁灭, 但不能给打败。
But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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他吹灭了蜡烛。
He blew out the candle.
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他的希望渐渐破灭了。
His hopes faded.
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恐龙在很久以前灭绝了。
Dinosaurs became extinct a very long time ago.
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恐龙好久以前就灭绝了。
Dinosaurs died out a very long time ago.
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所有的灯光同时灭了。
All at the same time, the lights went out.