■ radical

miè

to extinguish

How it’s built

Simplified form of 滅. Depicts water (氵) being used to extinguish a fire (火). 戌 is a sound component. The traditional component 氵 was removed for simplification.

一

simplified

one — Shorthand for the 戌 component in the traditional character 滅. The pronunciation of 滅 was similar to 戌 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

火

meaning

fire

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