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灭亡 mièwáng “to perish” in Chinese

Traditional 滅亡

What 灭亡 means

  1. to perish
  2. to die out
  3. to be destroyed
  4. to become extinct
  5. to destroy
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to exterminate

How to say 灭亡

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale灭miè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale亡wáng2nd tone, rising

灭亡 in a sentence

  1. 从古到今，没有过不灭亡的国家。

    Cóng gǔ dào jīn, méiyǒu guo bú mièwáng de guójiā.

    Throughout history, no nation has escaped eventual destruction.

    Sentence #3845390 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 灭亡 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 灭 (miè) with each of its parts in a different colour
灭mièto extinguish or put out
  • 一one · yī
  • 火fire · huǒ
The character 亡 (wáng) drawn as one shape
亡wángto die

亡 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 灭亡

灭 5 strokes · 亡 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

灭亡 (mièwáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 灭亡 (mièwáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 灭亡

Words with 灭

毁灭huǐmiè · to destroy消灭xiāomiè · to wipe out熄灭xīmiè · to go out

Words with 亡

死亡sǐwáng · death

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FAQs

灭亡 (mièwáng) means “to perish” or “to die out”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it mièwáng: miè with a 4th tone, then wáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 灭亡 is written 滅亡. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type miewang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 灭亡 from the suggestions. Typing miewang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
灭亡 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.