熄 xī
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- 火 — fire, flame
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
熄灭
xīmiè
to go out; to extinguish
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Example phrases
- 消防员赶到时，仓库里的明火已经熄灭，但浓烟仍在不断涌出。 Xiāofángyuán gǎn dào shí, cāngkù lǐ de mínghuǒ yǐjīng xīmiè, dàn nóngyān réng zài búduàn yǒng chū. When the firefighters arrived, the open flames in the warehouse had already gone out, but thick smoke was still pouring out.
- 停电了，整栋楼的灯同时熄灭。 Tíngdiàn le, zhěng dòng lóu de dēng tóngshí xīmiè. The power went out, and all the lights in the building went out at once.
- 临睡前，他把客厅里的蜡烛都熄灭了。 Lín shuì qián, tā bǎ kètīng lǐ de làzhú dōu xīmiè le. Before going to sleep, he put out all the candles in the living room.
Related words
- 熄火 xīhuǒ to stall; to flame out; to switch off an engine
- 灭 miè to extinguish, to destroy
- 扑灭 pūmiè to extinguish
- 消灭 xiāomiè to annihilate
- 毁灭 huǐmiè to destroy; to annihilate
- 歼灭 jiānmiè to annihilate; to wipe out
- 灭绝 mièjué to become extinct; to exterminate
- 灭亡 mièwáng to perish; to collapse; to become extinct
- 破灭 pòmiè to be shattered; to be destroyed; to collapse
- 消 xiāo to disappear; to remove; to ease
- 脱落 tuōluò to fall off; to come loose
- 萎缩 wěisuō to shrink; to atrophy