Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 滅 Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 642, Entry 02 Ancient form. Pronounced mie. Saying of the Explanation of Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): To exhaust. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Summer Offices: The Grand Marshall conducts the nine punitive expeditions; if the laws are ignored and there is internal chaos, or if they behave like birds and beasts, then exterminate them. Commentary: To destroy their ancestral temples and altars to the soil and grain is called extermination. Also, to sink. Book of Changes (Yijing), Great Exceeding: Crossing too deep, it sinks over the crown of the head. Also, fire going out. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Pan Geng: Like a fire blazing on a plain, which cannot be approached, it can still be extinguished. Also, in rhyme supplement: Rhymes with mi. Cao Zhi, Eulogy for Xia Qi: A great battle at Gan, Youhu was exterminated. Power shook the feudal lords, the primary achievement was successfully governed.