断灭 (斷滅)
duàn miè
Pinyin
Definition
断灭 (斷滅)
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- annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 unceasing
- 2 uninterrupted
- 3 continuous
- 4 constant
- 1 to break
- 2 to snap
- 3 to cut off
- 4 to give up or abstain from sth
- 5 to judge
- 6 (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
- 7 definitely
- 8 decidedly
- 1 firm
- 2 decisive
- 1 to extinguish or put out
- 2 to go out (of a fire etc)
- 3 to exterminate or wipe out
- 4 to drown
- 1 to cut short
- 2 to break off
- 3 to discontinue
- 4 to interrupt
Idioms (20)
一刀两断
- 1 lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom)
- 2 fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
亡国灭种
- 1 country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
假途灭虢
- 1 lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
伤筋断骨
- 1 to suffer serious injury (idiom)
割袍断义
- 1 to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom)
- 2 to break all friendly ties