| | to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy | HSK 3 |
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| | broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of | HSK 3 |
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| | (idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember | |
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| | to disinfect / (computing) to destroy a computer virus | HSK 5 |
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| | to destroy; to ruin / to defame; to slander | HSK 6 |
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| | to destroy by fire | HSK 6 |
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| | to destroy; to wreck | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860 | |
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| | to blow up / to destroy with explosives | |
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| | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things | |
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| | to destroy | |
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| | to destroy one's (reputation etc) / (of a device etc) to self-destruct | |
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| | to perish / to ruin / to destroy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. | |
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| | (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated / a fallen nation | |
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| | lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will | |
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| | to defeat / to crush (in battle) / beaten / ruined / destroyed / in decline | |
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| | to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐｜勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu | |
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| | to destroy (by melting or burning) / to obliterate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to puncture / to pierce / (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality) | |
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| | lit. to destroy the bridge after crossing the river (idiom) / fig. to abandon one's benefactor upon achieving one's goal | |
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| | to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to destroy the old and establish the new (idiom) / radical transformation | |
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| | to annihilate / to attack and destroy / Jianji, PRC fighter plane based on Soviet MiG / usually 殲擊8 型｜歼击8 型 | |
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| | to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | |
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| | World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists) | |
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| | to destroy a country; to wipe a nation off the map | |
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| | to defeat / to strike down / to destroy | |
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| | to destroy / to extirpate | |
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| | to attack and destroy | |
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| | demolition of homes / to destroy homes (for new building projects) | |
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| | Wu Zixu (–484 BC), Chu-born strategist for Wu. After the King of Chu executed his family, he fled to Wu and masterminded Wu's invasion of Chu (506 BC), destroying its capital in a campaign that doubled as personal vengeance. | |
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| | to damage; to wreck; to destroy | |
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| | phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter) | |
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| | to tear down / to destroy / to dismantle (a gang) / to abort (a fetus) | |
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| | to destroy / to smash / sabotage | |
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| | lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed / anxious to do battle (idiom) | |
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| | to destroy; to smash | |
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| | Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack) | |
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| | to waste / to spoil / to destroy / to insult grievously | |
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| | lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風｜野火春风 | |
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| | country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction | |
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| | Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces | |
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| | Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake) | |
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| | to burn down / to destroy with fire | |
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| | to burn down / to destroy with fire | |
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| | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten | |
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| | to destroy | |
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| | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) | |
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| | to destroy by smashing / smashed up | |
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| | Zhurong, god of fire in Chinese mythology (sometimes used allusively, as in 毀於祝融｜毁于祝融 "destroyed by fire") | |
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| | to destroy in an explosion / to break (by bombing) | |
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| | Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area | |
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| | lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate | |
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| | to destroy one's family | |
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| | subjugated people / refugee from a destroyed country | |
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| | to instigate / to ruin / to destroy | |
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| | Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | to destroy / to stop | |
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| | to break / to destroy / to devastate / to ravage / to repress | |
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| | to destroy / to rip / to tear open | |
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| | destroy / overthrow | |
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| | Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79 / Pompey (Roman general) | |
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| | to destroy | |
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| | name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齊｜齐 | |
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| | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike | |
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| | destroyed / injure | |
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