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

careless; incautious; rash

Synonyms

(careless):

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

to break; to destroy