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Radical:
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 10
Total Strokes: 13
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Pronunciation

Pinyin: miè
Cantonese: mit6
JapaneseKun: HOROBIRU HOROBOSU
JapaneseOn: METSU BETSU
Korean: MYEL
Vietnamese: diệt

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: extinguish; wipe out, exterminate

CE-Dict: to extinguish or put out/to go out (of a fire etc)/to exterminate or wipe out/to drown

Soothill: Extinguish, exterminate, destroy; a tr. of nirodha (निरोध), suppression, annihilation; of nirvāṇa (निर्वाण), blown out, extinguished, dead, perfect rest, highest felicity, etc.; and of nivṛtti (निव्ड़्त्ति), cessation, disappearance. nirodha (निरोध) is the third of the four axioms: 苦, 集, 滅, 道 pain, its focussing, its cessation (or cure), the way of such cure. Various ideas are expressed as to the meaning of 滅, i.e. annihilation or extinction of existence; or of rebirth and mortal existence; or of the passions as the cause of pain; and it is the two latter views which generally prevail; cf. 涅 10 strokes.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.(of a light, fire, etc.) to go out
2.to extinguish
3.to turn off
4.to exterminate

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: destroy; drown; exterminate; extinguish; go out; put out
【醫】 slake

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: destroy; drown; exterminate; extinguish; go out; put out

湘雅醫學專業詞典: slake

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《水部》滅 盡也。从水𤇳聲。

康熙字典文字版 【巳集上】【水字部】 滅
〔古文〕𣹹𢦹【唐韻】亡列切【集韻】莫列切,𠀤音搣。【說文】盡也。【周禮·夏官】大司馬九代之,灋外內亂,鳥獸行,則滅之。【註】毀其宗廟社稷曰滅。 又沒也。【易·大過】過涉滅頂。 又火熄也。【書·盤庚】若火之燎于原,不可嚮邇,其猶可撲滅。 又【韻補】叶明祕切,音媚。【曹植·夏啓讚】大戰于甘,有扈以滅。威振諸侯,元功克乂。

朱芾煌:法相辭典 分別緣起初勝法門經二十二頁雲:雲何第一名滅行相?謂于永斷煩惱滅中,正觀行相。
二解瑜伽四十六卷二頁雲:從此諸行生剎那後,即此已生諸行剎那、自性滅壞;正觀為滅。
三解瑜伽五十二卷五頁雲:生剎那後,諸行相盡;說名為滅。亦名無常。
四解瑜伽八十三卷二十二頁雲:所言滅者:謂餘煩惱斷故。
五解瑜伽八十四卷六頁雲:所言滅者:謂于無學、一切依滅。
六解瑜伽八十五卷十頁雲:于滅界未得為得、勤修習故;名于諸行修滅。
七解如四行了滅諦相中說。
八解成唯識論二卷一頁雲:暫有還無,無時名滅。又雲:滅表有法後是無。此依剎那四相釋。又雲:後無名滅。此依一期四相釋。
九解雜集論八卷十四頁雲:由有如是俱離系故;當來苦滅。故次問言:何故名滅?當來彼果、苦不生故。能成未來苦不生法,故名為滅。

Foguang Dictionary of Buddhism (佛光大辭典)  (一)梵語vyupas/ama。寂滅之略稱。即涅之意。度脫生死,進入寂靜無為之境地,稱為入滅。(參閱‘涅’4149、‘寂滅’4505)
 (二)梵語anityata^。滅盡之意。又作滅相、無常。為四相之一。謂有為之諸法,皆具有剎那間壞滅之性質。又有情之死,亦稱為滅。(參閱‘無常’5109)
 (三)梵語vinaya 之意譯。音譯作毗奈耶。意即律藏、毗尼藏。為經律論三藏之一。乃佛所制有關比丘、比丘尼之禁戒。(參閱‘毗奈耶藏’3850)
 (四)四諦之一。滅諦(梵nirodha -satya )之略稱。(參閱‘四諦’1840、‘滅諦’ 5510)

Ding Fubao - Dictionary for Buddhist Studies (丁福保:佛學大辭典) (術語)有三種:一涅,譯為滅。涅之體,無為寂滅。故名滅。大乘義章二曰:“涅,無為恬泊,名滅。”二尼彌留陀,尼樓陀Nirodha,譯為滅。四諦中之滅諦也,涅之滅,偏據滿處。尼彌留陀之滅,通于因果。大乘義章一曰:“涅之滅偏據滿處,尼彌留陀滅義通因果,是故滅諦有滅皆收。”賢愚經十二曰:“豆遙□牟提耶。尼樓陀,末伽。晉言苦集滅道。”三毗尼,譯為滅,是戒行也。戒行能滅諸惡,故曰滅。前二者體是滅,毗尼之滅,有所滅也。大乘義章一曰:“若論毗尼,體非是滅,有為行德,能有所滅,故名為滅。又能證寂滅之果,故說為滅。”梵語雜名曰:“滅,尾娜舍。”俱舍論光記五曰:“能滅彼現法用,滅入過去,故名為滅。”

陳義孝佛學常見辭彙 1.梵語涅槃,華譯為滅,因涅槃之體,無為寂滅,故名。2.指四諦中的滅諦。3.即戒行,因戒行能滅除諸惡。

Buddhism words and phrases finish, end, cease, wipe out, negate, annihilate
(term) nihilism

CF-Dict: éteindre/exterminer

Han-De-Dict: abschalten, ausmachen, beenden (u.E.) (V)/ertrinken (u.E.) (V)/löschen, ausmachen (Licht, Feuer, Kerze) (u.E.) (V)/vernichten (u.E.) (V)/erloschen (Licht, Feuer, Kerze) (u.E.) (Adj)