"Extinction" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 绝种 | jué zhǒng | extinct (species) / extinction |   |
| 绝灭 | jué miè | to annihilate / to exterminate / extinction | |
| 沦灭 | lún miè | to perish / extinction | |
| 消光 | xiāo guāng | (optics) extinction | |
| 濒死 | bīn sǐ | nearing death / on the point of demise / approaching extinction | |
| 救亡 | jiù wáng | to save from extinction / to save the nation | |
| 灭种 | miè zhǒng | to commit genocide / to become extinct / extinction of a race | |
| 大灭绝 | dà miè jué | mass extinction | |
| 束手待毙 | shù shǒu dài bì | to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction | |
| 第三纪 | dì sān jì | third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago) | |
| 大绝灭 | dà jué miè | mass extinction | |
| 濒灭 | bīn miè | on the brink of extinction | |
| 生物大灭绝 | shēng wù dà miè jué | great extinction of species | |
| 零灭绝联盟 | líng miè jué lián méng | Alliance for Zero Extinction | |
| 波状消光 | bō zhuàng xiāo guāng | (geology) undulose extinction | |
