消

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𫁄, 𦷟, 𫠸

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		消
simp. #		消

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 消
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sew) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sêu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siau

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao¹ / siou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau
    • Tâi-lô: siau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao¹ / siou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siau / siou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau³³/, /siou³³/

Note:

• siao1 - Shantou;
• siou1 - Chaozhou.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 消
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiɑu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕiau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/ɕiɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/siɔ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/siau²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ɕiau²¹/
	Xining	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiɔ³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ɕiao⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/siɔo³¹/
	Hefei	/ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕiɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕiɔ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/siæ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɕiɔ³³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕiɛ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/siɔ³¹/
	Tunxi	/siu¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/siau³³/
	Xiangtan	/siaɯ³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕiɛu⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/siau⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/seu²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/siu⁵³/
	Nanning	/ɬiu⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/siu⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/siau⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/sieu⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/siau⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/siau³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/siau²³/ /tiau²³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjew

Rime
Character	消
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相邀切
Baxter	sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	消
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiāo
Middle Chinese	‹ sjew ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ew/
English	dissolve; disappear
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	消
Reading #	1/1
No.	13739
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*sew/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 消

1. to disappear; to vanish; to die down; to settle down
2. to eliminate; to terminate; to eradicate
3. to while away (time)
4. to spend (money)
5. to need

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Japanese

Kanji

消

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to disappear
2. to extinguish

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: きえる (kieru, 消える, Jōyō)^{←きゆ (kyu, 消ゆ, historical)}; けす (kesu, 消す, Jōyō)

Compounds

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 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 消 (tiêu, teo, tiu)

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