殄滅

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See also: 殄灭

Chinese

exterminate extinguish
trad. (殄滅)
simp. (殄灭)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (4)
Final () (85) (81)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter denX mjiet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/denX/ /miᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/denX/ /miɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛnX/ /mjæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛnX/ /miat̚/
Li
Rong
/denX/ /miɛt̚/
Wang
Li
/dienX/ /mĭɛt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱienX/ /mi̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diàn miè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
din6 mit6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiǎn miè
Middle
Chinese
‹ denX › ‹ mjiet ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁəʔ/ /*et/
English cease; destroy destroy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17087 13942
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯːnʔ/ /*med/
Notes

Verb

殄滅

  1. (literary) to annihilate; to wipe out

Synonyms