"Extinct" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 失传 | shī chuán | (of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct |   |
| 绝迹 | jué jì | to be eradicated / to vanish / extinct / to break off relations | |
| 绝种 | jué zhǒng | extinct (species) / extinction | |
| 已灭 | yǐ miè | extinct | |
| 古人 | gǔ rén | people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person | |
| 灭亡 | miè wáng | to be destroyed / to become extinct / to perish / to die out / to destroy / to exterminate | |
| 灭绝 | miè jué | to become extinct / to die out / to lose (sth abstract) completely / to exterminate | |
| 能人 | néng rén | capable person / Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid | |
| 灭种 | miè zhǒng | to commit genocide / to become extinct / extinction of a race | |
| 不绝如缕 | bù jué rú lu:3 | hanging by a thread / very precarious / almost extinct / (of sound) linger on faintly | |
| 死火山 | sǐ huǒ shān | extinct volcano | |
| 恐鸟 | kǒng niǎo | monstrous bird / moa (genus Dinornithidae, extinct bird of New Zealand) | |
| 原牛 | yuán niú | aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox | |
| 巧人 | qiǎo rén | Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid (Tw) | |
| 灭绝品种 | extinct species | | |
| 灭绝物种 | extinct species | | |
| 休眠洋脊 | xiū mián yáng jǐ | extinct oceanic ridge / extinct spreading ridge / failed rift | |
| 死绝 | sǐ jué | to die out / to be exterminated / to become extinct | |
| 绝门儿 | jué mén r | extinct profession / lost trade / unique skill / astonishing / fantastic | |
| 丹尼索瓦人 | Dān ní suǒ wǎ rén | Denisovan, an extinct species of human | |
| 龙人 | Lóng rén | Dragon Man, the nickname of the individual whose fossilized cranium was discovered in Heilongjiang in 1933, thought to be a Denisovan 丹尼索瓦人[Dan1 ni2 suo3 wa3 ren2] or a new species of extinct human, Homo longi | |
