消 (xiāo)
to disappear; to vanish; to eliminate; to cancel; news (消息)
How 消 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 消
- Simplified
- 消 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- ⺌ small
- 月 moon
Common words using 消
- 消失 xiāoshī
- to disappear; to fade away
- 消息 xiāoxi
- news; information; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 取消 qǔxiāo
- to cancel; cancellation
- 消停 xiāotíng
- to calm down; to stop; to pause
- 消化 xiāohuà
- to digest; digestion; digestive
- 消極 xiāojí
- negative; passive; inactive
- 消毒 xiāodú
- to disinfect; to sterilize
- 消滅 xiāomiè
- to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish
- 消炎 xiāoyán
- to reduce fever; antipyretic; to decrease inflammation
- 消磨 xiāomó
- to wear down; to sap; to whittle away
- 消耗 xiāohào
- to use up; to consume
- 消腫 xiāozhǒng
- rapid decrease of a swelling; detumescence
消 in a sentence
我聽到一個好消息，你要不要聽聽看？
Wǒ tīngdào yī ge hǎo xiāoxí, nǐ yào bù yào tīngtīng kàn?
“I heard some good news; do you want to hear it?”
How common is 消?
消 is the 439th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 73% of all running text.
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