Kanji1 / 10
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
- —消光比extinction ratio
- —消磁器degausser; demagnetizer
- —対消滅annihilation (of particle and anti-particle)
- —消防船fire boat; fireboat
- —消災呪disaster-preventing incantation; disaster-preventing dharani
- —消防夫fireman
- —消防組fire brigade (pre-WWII Japan)
- —消防官fire officer
- —消波堤breakwater; wave-absorbing dyke (dike)
- —消泡剤antifoam; defoamer; antifoaming agent
- —解消法solution (to a problem); method of resolving; way to relieve (e.g. stress)
- —消波工wave dissipator; wave dissipating works
- —意気消沈low spirits; depression; dejection; discouragement; despondency
- —雲散霧消vanishing like mist
- —薫蒸消毒fumigation
- —個人消費consumer spending
- —消音装置(gun) silencer
- —消耗品費expenses for consumable goods; supplies expenses
- —不消化物indigestible materials
- —霊魂消滅annihilation