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滅 — destroy, ruin, overthrow

N1 13 strokes #1222 most common

Stroke order · 13 strokes

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Try writing it · आफैं लेखेर हेर्नुहोस्

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Readings

音 メツ
訓 ほろびる、ほろぶ、ほろぼす
Meaning destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
नेपाली विनाश

How to remember it

氵さんずい र 威い — नष्ट हुनु; 支離滅裂しりめつれつ = अस्तव्यस्त/असंगत।

Parts it is built from

Learn it in a course

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Practice sheets

A4 grid to print and write on.

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Words using 滅

  • 支離滅裂しりめつれつ incoherent असंगत/अस्तव्यस्त course
  • 滅亡めつぼう downfall विनाश course
  • 全滅ぜんめつ annihilation सर्वनाश course
  • 絶滅ぜつめつ extinction लोप course
  • 破滅はめつ ruin विनाश course
  • 滅多めった rarely विरलै course
  • 滅ほろぼす to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck dictionary
  • 隠滅いんめつ destruction (esp. of evidence), spoliation, suppression dictionary
  • 壊滅かいめつ (complete) destruction, annihilation, devastation dictionary
  • 幻滅げんめつ disillusionment, disillusion, disenchantment dictionary

Example sentences

His explanation is incoherent.
उनको व्याख्या असंगत छ।
An ancient civilization falls.
प्राचीन सभ्यता नष्ट हुन्छ।