消
Meaning
xiāo xiao1
- to diminish; to subside
- to consume; to reduce
- to idle away (the time)
- (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take
Example sentences
- He is not angry anymore.
- I will have spent all this money in three months.
HSK words with 消
- 消息xiāoxinews
- 消失xiāoshīto disappear; to fade away
- 取消qǔxiāoto cancel
- 消费xiāofèito consume
- 消化xiāohuàto digest (food)
- 消防xiāofángfirefighting
- 消除xiāochúto eliminate
- 消毒xiāodúto disinfect; to sterilize
- 消费者xiāofèizhěconsumer
- 消极xiāojínegative
- 消灭xiāomièto put an end to
- 消耗xiāohàoto use up
- 消遣xiāoqiǎnto while the time away
- 抵消dǐxiāoto counteract
- 消沉xiāochéndepressed