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消 kanji
extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
きえるけす
Words with 消
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —消耗品Popularconsumable goods
- —消化器Populardigestive organ
- —消防庁PopularFire and Disaster Management Agency
- —消費財Popularconsumer goods
- —消失disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off
- —費消spending; consumption; misappropriation; embezzlement
- —消却erasure; effacement; paying back (debt)
- —消光passing one's time; extinction (of light); quenching (of fluorescence)
- —消長prosperity and decay; prosperity and decline; rise and fall; ups and downs; ebb and flow; waxing and waning
- —消磁demagnetization; demagnetisation; degaussing
- —消沈depression; low spirits; dejection
- —消散evaporation; dispersion; dissipation
- —消閑killing time
- —消夏summering; spending the summer
- —消磨abrasion; wearing out
- —消音silencing (a machine, gun, etc.); muffling; muting (e.g. a TV)
- —私消embezzlement; misappropriation of public funds; defalcation
- —消臭deodorization
- —消雪snow melting (usu. a system or device); snow removal
- —霧消vanishing like mist