滅私奉公

めっしほうこう めっしぼうこう

selfless devotion

私

わたし わたくし あっし わっち わっし わい わて わたい あたし あたくし あたい あて し

I, me

陰陰滅滅

いんいんめつめつ

gloomy

生滅滅已

しょうめつめつい

going beyond life and death and entering nirvana

私利私欲

しりしよく

desire to act only in one's self-interest, selfish desires

私怨私欲

しえんしよく

personal grudges and selfish desires

私地私民

しちしみん

private ownership of land and citizens

燼滅

じんめつ

completely destroying (esp. by fire), burning to ashes

滅度

めつど

extinguishing illusion and passing over to Nirvana

尽滅

じんめつ

annihilation

滅菌

めっきん

sterilization, sterilisation

滅亡

めつぼう

downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction

殄滅

てんめつ

complete and utter annihilation

敗滅

はいめつ

scattered or crushed in defeat

族滅

ぞくめつ

putting an entire family to death

絶滅

ぜつめつ

destruction, extinction

全滅

ぜんめつ

annihilation, total destruction, complete destruction, crushing defeat

衰滅

すいめつ

decline, downfall, ruin(ation)

討滅

とうめつ

destroying, annihilating, eradicating