Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 消

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiāo

Preclassic Old Chinese: saw

Classic Old Chinese: saw

Western Han Chinese: saw

Eastern Han Chinese: sjaw

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Middle Chinese: sjew

English meaning : to melt, dissolve

Russian meaning[s]: 1) рассеяться, растаять, сойти на нет, исчезнуть; рассосаться; 2) потребить, израсходовать; 3) стереть; уничтожить; 4) пользоваться, употреблять; 5) развлекаться, разгонять скуку; 6) негативный; пассивный; отрицательный

Comments: A later meaning is '(dissolve >) disperse, spend'. Standard Sino-Viet. is tiêu.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 3594

Karlgren code: 1149 j

Vietnamese reading: teo

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