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
- 消费群(消費群) consumer group
- 消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约(消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- 难以消受(難以消受) difficult to bear
- 消防队员(消防隊員) fireman
- 消火栓 fire hydrant
- 烟消云散(煙消雲散) smoke disperses, clouds scatter; to vanish into thin air
- 消费者(消費者) consumer ; biological consumer
- 消灭(消滅) to annihilate; to eliminate; to pass away ; annihilation
- 消除 to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
- 消防队(消防隊) fire brigade; fire department
- 洗消场(洗消場) decontaminating field
- 消化系统(消化系統) digestive system; gastrointestinal tract
- 吃得消 to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc); to be able to afford
- 消费器件(消費器件) consumer
- 消费者保护(消費者保護) consumer protection
- 消蚀(消蝕) erosion; wearing away; ablation
- 消防车(消防車) fire engine
- 消费品(消費品) consumer goods
- 消受 to bear; to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
- 消歧义(消歧義) to remove ambiguity; to disambiguate
- 意志消沉 unshakable determination
- 消磨 to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
- 消毒剂(消毒劑) disinfectant
- 洗消剂(洗消劑) decontaminant; decontaminating agent
- 消化酒 digestif
- 对消(對消) in equilibrium; to cancel out (of opposite forces)
- 消愁解闷(消愁解悶) to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy; diversion from boredom; to dispel depression or melancholy; to relieve stress; a relaxing pass-time
- 消食儿(消食兒) to aid digestion
- 不消说(不消說) does not need to be said
- 消去 to eliminate
- 消音器 silencer
- 消逝 to fade away
- 随本消息(隨本消息) along with the rise and fall
- 消闲(消閒) to spend one's leisure time; to idle away the time
- 消沉 depressed; bad mood; low spirit
- 消耗量 rate of consumption
- 消息灵通(消息靈通) to be well-informed
- 消极(消極) negative; passive; inactive
- 消融 to melt
- 消息 news; information ; rise and fall; flow and ebb ; secret ; a hub
- 消防署 fire station
- 消忧(消憂) to reduce worry
- 消泯 to eliminate; to obliterate
- 消化管 digestive tube; gut
- 消化不良 indigestion
- 消遣 to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of
- 撤消 to undo; to cancel
- 消长(消長) to ebb and rise; to decrease and then grow
- 消毒法 sterilization
- 取消 to cancel
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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
- 卷五十二 志第五 天文五 Volume 52 Treatises 5: Astronomy 5 History of Song 宋史 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 冰消 (冰消) 守則淮南冰消 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu — count: 2
- 日消 (日消) 泲水之鹽以日消 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重乙第八十一 Chapter 81: Weight II — count: 2
- 消铜 (消銅) 消銅鐵 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八 本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 2