Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced mie

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced mie, including 灭 miè. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For mie, start on m and let it run into ie without pausing; keep the mouth moving and hold the tone to the end.

Start the syllable on the initial m, then run straight into the final ie — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

Settle the final ie into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read mie (灭 miè) — focus on locking in its tone.

mie turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 4th tone here: 灭 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing mie inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.