U+6EC5 "滅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
滅
U+6EC5 "滅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean, typically meaning "to destroy," "to extinguish," or "to perish." It is composed of the water radical (氵) on the left, suggesting the element of water or fluidity, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation as "mie" in Mandarin and "metsu" or "horobu" in Japanese. In classical texts and modern usage, this character conveys the act of annihilation or the end of something, such as fire being put out or a civilization collapsing, and it is a common component in words like "destruction" (毀滅) and "extinction" (滅亡).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6EC5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 滅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 滅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xBB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6EC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006EC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ec5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7C0 |
| kCCCII | 214842 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6466 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6466 |
| kCangjie | EIHF |
| kCantonese | mit6 |
| kCihaiT | 821.101 |
| kCowles | 2701 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1049.090 |
| kDefinition | extinguish; wipe out, exterminate |
| kEACC | 214842 |
| kFanqie | 亡列 |
| kFenn | 342C |
| kFennIndex | 340.12 341.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3315.0 |
| kGB1 | 3580 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0294b |
| kHangul | 멸:0E |
| kHanYu | 31696.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | miè(328) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31696.090:miè |
| kHKGlyph | 2268 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1049.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31696.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0642.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4370 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C47 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAED |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-587E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6466 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5D2C |
| kJapanese | メツ ベツ メチ ほろびる ほろぼす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOROBIRU HOROBOSU |
| kJapaneseOn | METSU BETSU |
| kJis0 | 4439 |
| kKangXi | 0642.010 |
| kKorean | MYEL |
| kLau | 2149 |
| kMandarin | miè |
| kMatthews | 4483 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1832 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015736 |
| kMorohashi | 18008 |
| kNelson | 2660 |
| kPhonetic | 907 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3795+85.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.10 |
| kSBGY | 498.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+70D5<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "灭" U+706D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 377.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | miè粵mit6 |
| kSpoofingVariant | U+34D5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3319 |
| kTang | *miɛt |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | diệt |
| kXerox | 245:272 |
| kXHC1983 | 0789.041:miè |