Meaning
consume; news; subside; to disappear; to vanish
Chinese: 消失、消除或消费。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “xiao” becomes a different word in each tone. 消 is the 1st tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 消息xiāo xi(piece of) news; information; message
- 消失xiāo shīto disappear; to fade away
- 取消qǔ xiāoto cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
- 消费xiāo fèito consume (goods and services, resources etc)
- 消化xiāo huàto digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
Example Sentence
天上的乌云慢慢消失了。Tiān shàng de wū yún màn màn xiāo shī le.The dark clouds in the sky slowly disappeared.
天上Tiān shàngthe sky的deof乌云wū yúnblack cloud慢慢màn mànslowly消失xiāo shīto disappear了le(completed action)。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The water radical 氵 plus 肖 (sound): to melt away like water — ‘to disappear, vanish, melt; to eliminate, dispel, remove; to while away, pass (time); to need’ (消失, 消息, 取消).
A way to remember it
To melt away (氵) — to disappear; to eliminate (取消).