Chinese word dictionary

淹灭

yān miè · to submerge; to flood; to bury

Practice word

Word information

Simplified淹灭

Traditional淹滅

Pinyinyān miè

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

淹yān

to drown, to immerse, to steep

灭miè

to extinguish; to wipe out

How to learn 淹灭

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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灭miè

to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out; to drown

扑灭pūmiè

to eradicate; to extinguish

消灭xiāomiè

to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory)

淹yān

to flood; to submerge; to drown; to irritate the skin (of liquids); to delay

淹没yānmò

to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)

毁灭huǐmiè

to perish; to ruin; to destroy