灭顶之灾 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 滅頂之災 mièdǐngzhīzāi ㄇㄧㄝˋ ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄓ ㄗㄞ catastrophic disaster devastating calamity idiom Character by character 灭(miè)extinguish or put out 顶(dǐng)apex 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 灾(zāi)disaster A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0