Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 滅 Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 642, Entry 01 Ancient character form. Pronounced mie. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): To exhaust. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of the Summer: The Great Minister of War executes the nine penalties; if the laws are ignored and internal or external order is disrupted, or if the people behave like birds and beasts, they are extinguished. Commentary: To destroy their ancestral temples and altars of soil and grain is called mie. Also means to sink or disappear. Book of Changes (Yijing), Great Excess (Dàguò): Crossing the stream, it goes over one's head. Also means to extinguish fire. Book of Documents (Shujing), Pan Geng: Like a fire spreading across the plain, it cannot be approached, yet it may still be beaten out and extinguished. Also, following rhyme conventions, it is rhymed with the sound mei. Cao Zhi, Ode to Xia Qi: A great battle at Gan, where the Youhu were extinguished. The majesty shook the feudal lords, and the great merit was achieved.