消
vanish; erase; extinguish; blow out; turn off; neutralize; cancel
10 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 345.
Readings
- ショウ (on reading): 消費 (しょうひ) consumption; 消滅 (しょうめつ) extinction
- けす (kun reading): 消す (けす) to erase; 取り消す (とりけす) to cancel
- きえる (kun reading): 消える (きえる) to disappear; 消え失せる (きえうせる) to disappear
Components
Words using 消
- 消費 (しょうひ) consumption
- 消滅 (しょうめつ) extinction
- 消化 (しょうか) digestion (of food)
- 解消 (かいしょう) cancellation
- 抹消 (まっしょう) erasure
- 消す (けす) to erase
- 取り消す (とりけす) to cancel
- 消し (けし) reduction (of a moyo or influence)
- 消し飛ばす (けしとばす) to scatter away
- 消しゴム (けしゴム) eraser
- 消える (きえる) to disappear
- 消え失せる (きえうせる) to disappear
- 立ち消え (たちぎえ) going out (before burning completely)
- 消え去る (きえさる) to disappear
- 消えゆく (きえゆく) to disappear (gradually)
330 words in all.