消

Translingual

Han character

消 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水火月 (EFB), four-corner 3912₇, composition ⿰月氵小)

1. vanish, die out
2. melt away

References

• KangXi: page 626, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17529
• Dae Jaweon: page 1027, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1622, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6D88

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Cantonese

Hanzi

消 (Yale siu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

消 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: きえる (kieru), けす (kesu)

Compounds

• 消息
• 消失
• 消費
• 消しゴム
• 消防署
• 消防
• 消える
• 消す
• 打ち消し
• 消夏
• 消却
• 消沈

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Korean

Hanja

消 (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

消 (pinyin dié (die2), xiāo (xiao1), Wade-Giles tieh², hsiao¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

消 (tiêu, teo, tiu)