消 xiāo
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xiāo
verb
to vanish; to die out; to eliminate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 除去 (Guoyu '消' v 1; Unihan '消') -
xiāo
verb
to melt; to dissolve
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 溶解; for example, 冰消瓦解 'disintegrate' (Giles 1892 '消'; Guoyu '消' v 5; Kroll 2015 '消' 1) -
xiāo
verb
to consume; to use up; to spend
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 耗损 or 耗费; for example, 消费 'spend' (Giles 1892 '消'; Guoyu '消' v 5; Kroll 2015 '消' 1b) -
xiāo
verb
to lessen; to diminish; to decline
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 減退 or 衰退 (Giles 1892 '消'; Guoyu '消' v 3; Kroll 2015 '消' 1a) -
xiāo
verb
to disperse
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 散失 (Giles 1892 '消'; Guoyu '消' v 2; Kroll 2015 '消' 1a) -
xiāo
verb
to be necessary; must; need to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 需要; for example, 不消说 'does not need to be said' (Giles 1892 '消'; Guoyu '消' v 8; Kroll 2015 '消' 5) -
xiāo
verb
to cancel; to eliminate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '消' 1c) -
xiāo
verb
to accept; to enjoy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 享受 (Guoyu '消' v 7; Kroll 2015 '消' 3) -
xiāo
verb
to be worth a certain amount
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 值得 (Guoyu '消' v 11; Kroll 2015 '消' 4) -
xiāo
verb
to pass time; to while the time away
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 消遣 (Guoyu '消' v 4) -
xiāo
verb
can be restrained
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 消遣 (Guoyu '消' v 10) -
xiāo
noun
news
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 音讯 (Guoyu '消' n)
Contained in
- 消闲儿(消閒兒) to idle away the time
- 消化液 digestive fluid
- 音像消息 audiovisual information
- 取消禁令 to lift a prohibition; to lift a ban
- 消受 to bear; to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
- 消防栓 fire hydrant
- 消释(消釋) to clear up
- 消毒法 sterilization
- 消闲(消閒) to spend one's leisure time; to idle away the time
- 消肿(消腫) to reduce swelling; detumescence; to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
- 消防队(消防隊) fire brigade; fire department
- 消隐(消隱) to hide; to retreat into privacy
- 消耗战(消耗戰) war of attrition
- 消魂 overwhelmed (with joy, sorrow etc); to feel transported
- 居民消费价格指数(居民消費價格指數) consumer price index CPI
- 消息 news; information ; rise and fall; flow and ebb ; secret ; a hub
- 消食儿(消食兒) to aid digestion
- 消化不良 indigestion
- 消防队员(消防隊員) fireman
- 消除毒剂(消除毒劑) decontamination
- 消散 to dissipate; to scatter
- 消费金融(消費金融) consumer finance
- 消炎药(消炎藥) anti-inflammatory medicine
- 消泯 to eliminate; to obliterate
- 小道消息 hearsay; gossip
- 难以消受(難以消受) difficult to bear
- 香消玉殒(香消玉殞) fragrance dispersed, jade lost; for a female to have passed away
- 消费者(消費者) consumer ; biological consumer
- 消炎片 an antipyretic tablet; anti inflammatory
- 消弭 to eliminate; to put an end to
- 消解 to clear up
- 消费者保护(消費者保護) consumer protection
- 支消 to expend [money]
- 抵消 to offset; to counteract; to cancel out
- 消去 to eliminate
- 渐消(漸消) gradually melt
- 消化酶 digestive enzymes
- 家道消乏 vanishing family wealth
- 消火栓 fire hydrant
- 消除 to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
- 消灭(消滅) to annihilate; to eliminate; to pass away ; annihilation
- 内线消息(內線消息) insider information
- 消灾(消災) to avoid calamities
- 消费税(消費稅) consumption tax; sales tax
- 消石 niter; nitre; saltpeter; saltpetre
- 只消 to only need; it only takes
- 消声器(消聲器) noise reduction equipment
- 消息来源(消息來源) web feed; news feed; syndicated feed
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- 卷五十四 列傳第四十二: 孫騰 高隆之 司馬子如 竇泰 尉景 婁昭 厙狄干 韓軌 段榮 斛律金 Volume 54 Biographies 42: Sun Teng, Gao Longzhi, Sima Ziru, Doutai, Wei Jing, Lou Zhao, She Digan, Han Gui, Duan Rong, Hu Lujin History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 16
- 卷21 列傳第13 尉遲迥 王謙 司馬消難 Volume 21 Biographies 13: Wei Chijiong; Wang Qian; Sima Xiaonan Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 14
- 卷三十四 志第十四: 曆三 Volume 34 Treatises 14: Calendar 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 11
- 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin Book of Han 漢書 — count: 9
- 卷五十二 志第五 天文五 Volume 52 Treatises 5: Astronomy 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 8
- 卷三十一 列傳第十九: 高允 高祐 盧曹 Volume 31 Biographies 19: Gao Yun, Gao Yu, Lu Cao History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
- 卷二一 列傳第十三 高乾 封隆之 Volume 21 Biographies 13: Gao Gan (Northern Qi); Feng Longzhi Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 8
- 卷十 周本紀下第十: 高祖武帝 宣帝 靜帝 Volume 10 Northern Zhou Annals 1: Emperor Gaozu Wu, Emperor Xuan, Emperor Jing History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷十一 隋本紀上第十一: 高祖文帝 Volume 11 Sui Annals 1: Emperor Gau Wen History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 6
Collocations
- 消摇 (消搖) 消搖於門 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 12
- 道消 (道消) 小人道消也 — Book of Changes 易經, 泰 Tai — count: 7
- 消伏 (消伏) 消伏災譴 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二 顯宗孝明帝紀 Volume 2: Annals of Emperor Xianzong Xiaoming — count: 4
- 可消 (可消) 然後妖異可消 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十下 郎顗襄楷列傳 Volume 30b: Biographies of Lang Yi; Xiang Kai — count: 4
- 灾消 (災消) 則災消而福至 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七下之下 五行志 Volume 27e: Treatise on the Five Elements 5 — count: 3
- 务消 (務消) 其務消救灾眚 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五 孝安帝紀 Volume 5: Annals of Emperor Xiao'an — count: 3
- 消铜 (消銅) 消銅鐵 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八 本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 2
- 恶消 (惡消) 佞惡消殄 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十八 楊李翟應霍爰徐列傳 Volume 48: Biographies of Yang, Li, Di, Ying, Huo, Yuan, Xu — count: 2
- 消卦 (消卦) 消卦為觀 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 — count: 2
- 消鼎 (消鼎) 以消鼎雉之災 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十七 杜欒劉李劉謝列傳 Volume 57: Biographies of Du, Luan, Liu, Li, Liu, Xie — count: 2