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

• 𫁄, 𦷟, 𫠸

• 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

Historical forms of the character 消
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sew) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews) – to extinguish something (with water).

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).

• (to eliminate):

• (to need): 需要 (xūyào), (Hokkien) 欠用

Shinjitai	消
Kyūjitai [1]	消󠄁 消+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	消󠄃 消+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to disappear
2. to extinguish

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: きえる (kieru, 消える, Jōyō)^{←きゆ (kyu, 消ゆ, historical)}、けす (kesu, 消す, Jōyō)

消 (eumhun 사라질 소 (sarajil so))

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

消: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu, teo, tiu

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