滅

Glyph origin
– to destroy with water (extinguish, flood).

Etymology
From. compares 🇨🇬 and possibly 🇨🇬. Cognate Chinese characters include:



The Old Chinese *e ~ Proto-Tibeto-Burman *i vowel discrepancy may be explained by a reanalysis of the proto-etymon in Chinese, as derived from + suffix *-t, although  is reconstructed in the Baxter-Sagart and Zhengzhang systems as having an *l-like initial. The direct Chinese comparandum of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mit may be (ibid.).

Definitions

 * 1) to obliterate; to wipe out; to eradicate; to conquer
 * 2) to be destroyed; to perish; to die
 * 3) to disappear; to vanish
 * 4) to extinguish (a fire);  to go out
 * 5) to turn off (light, lamp, etc.)
 * 6) to alter (handwriting)
 * 1) to alter (handwriting)

Kanji

 * 1) destroy
 * 2) die, perish, disappear
 * 3) fall, collapse

Etymology
From.