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消

xiāo

vanish

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

肖 sound component

肖  Sound component

xiào, xiāo

  

look like

Evolution

消 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
消 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
消 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
消 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
消 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

消  

xiāo

vanish, die out; melt away; to disappear; to vanish; to eliminate; to spend (time); have to; need

Most common words with 消
Freq.
Word
Meaning

消息

news

消失

to disappear

消费者

consumer

取消

to cancel

消费

to consume

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ew

sjew

xiāo

dissolve; disappear


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 82.8128% of movies

387th most common character in movies

439th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D88

Shuowen

“消，盡也。从水，肖聲。”


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