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消

消

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. vanish, die out
  2. melt away

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 消

Pronunciation

  • 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 (Min Nan) /siau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /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
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
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

消

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

消

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to disappear
  2. to extinguish

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

消 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

消 (tiêu, teo, tiu)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 消
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

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