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消息

xiāo xi 1–5

news; information

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
消 · 息
Syllables
2
xiāo xi
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 448

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 消xiāo10 strokesHSK 3vanish, die out; melt away
  • 息xī10 strokesHSK 1rest, put stop to, end, cease

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我有消息。

    Wǒ yǒu xiāo xi

    I've got news.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 消息. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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