(xiāo) - to disappear; to eliminate; news (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
xiāoTraditional: 消
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Translation
to disappear; to eliminate; news (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵suggests something melting or dissolving away, while 肖 (xiāo) gives the sound, hence to disappear or eliminate.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 氵 (water radical) + 肖 (xiāo, phonetic)
Stroke order
消
Examples
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I have some good news.
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He suddenly disappeared.
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This news made everyone happy.
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His doubts disappeared.
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Please help me dispel my worries.
消 (xiāo) is a bound morpheme for disappearing or eliminating, found in 消息 (xiāo xī) "news" and 消失 (xiāo shī) "to vanish".
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 消.
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