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.