消

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消 U+6D88, 消
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D88
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 涉 →

Translingual

Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

trad. 消
simp. # 消
alternative forms 宵

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) – to extinguish something (with water).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • siao1 - Shantou;
  • siou1 - Chaozhou.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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/
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/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		siu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 消
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sjew ›
Old
Chinese 		/*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. * 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

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
  6. Used in 消息 (xiāoxi).

Synonyms

  • (to eliminate):

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 消
Kyūjitai
[1]
消󠄁
消+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
消󠄃
消+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

消

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to disappear
  2. to extinguish

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “消”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

消 (eumhun 사라질 소 (sarajil so))

  1. hanja form? of 소 (“disappear; extinguish”)

Vietnamese

Han character

消: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu, teo, tiu

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