U+706D "灭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+706D "灭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to extinguish," "to destroy," or "to die out," commonly used in modern Mandarin. It originated as a simplified form of the traditional character "滅," which depicts the concept of putting out a fire, with the left side originally representing water and the right side conveying the idea of elimination. In everyday usage, it appears in words like "消灭" meaning to annihilate and "灭火" meaning to put out a fire, and it is also a component in various technical and literary contexts across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+706D
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	灭
HTML Hex Encoding	灭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x81 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x706D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000706D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u706d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	274842
kCangjie	XMF
kCantonese	mit6
kDefinition	extinguish; wipe out, exterminate
kEACC	274842
kFourCornerCode	1080
kGB0	3580
kHanYu	32188.010
kHanyuPinlu	miè(328)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32188.010
kIRGKangXi	0665.031
kIRG_GSource	G0-4370
kTGH	2013:223
kKangXi	0665.031
kMainlandTelegraph	3319
kMandarin	miè
kPhonetic	907
kRSUnicode	86.1
kSMSZD2003Index	392.10
kTGHZ2013	253.080:miè
kTotalStrokes	5
kTraditionalVariant	"滅" U+6EC5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0789.040:miè