滅裂

Chinese

		extinguish	crack; split
trad. (滅裂)		滅	裂
simp. (灭裂)		灭	裂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mièliè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶ lit⁶

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mièliè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mièliè
    • Wade–Giles: mieh⁴-lieh⁴
    • Yale: myè-lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miehlieh
    • Palladius: меле (mele)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mit⁶ lit⁶
    • Yale: miht liht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹ lit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mid⁶ lid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːt̚² liːt̚²/

---

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]et  [r]at/

  (Zhengzhang): /*med  red/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滅	裂
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miè	liè
Middle Chinese	‹ mjiet ›	‹ ljet ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]et/	/*[r]at/
English	destroy	to cut, split
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滅	裂
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13942	8129
Phonetic component	戌	列
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	滅
Old Chinese	/*med/	/*red/
Notes	烕轉註

Adjective

滅裂

1. careless; incautious; rash

Synonyms

• (careless):

edit

• 大意 (dàyì)
• 容易 (literary)
• 投五投六 (⁶deu-ng-deu-loq) (Shanghainese)
• 揦西 (laa² sai¹) (Cantonese)
• 毛糙 (máocāo)
• 泡毛 (pao⁴ mao²) (Sichuanese)
• 潦草
• 疏忽
• 簡單 / 简单 (jiǎndān)
• 粗心 (cūxīn)
• 邋糊 (la³ fu²) (Xiang)
• 馬虎 / 马虎

 

• (incautious): 不慎 (bùshèn)

Derived terms

• 魯莽滅裂 / 鲁莽灭裂 (lǔmǎngmièliè)
• 鹵莽滅裂 / 卤莽灭裂 (lǔmǎngmièliè)

 

Verb

滅裂

1. to break; to destroy