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灭 5 strokes

灭 miè — to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc)

5 strokes · radical 火 (fire) · traditional 滅

13 strokes · simplified 灭

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A way to remember it

A fire with a lid clapped over it. Smothering the flame is to extinguish, and from there to wipe out entirely.

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A fire with a lid clapped over it.

Words it turns up in

Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.

毁灭消灭吹灭

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