消息
xiāo xi 1–5
news; information
- Characters
- 2
- 消 · 息
- Syllables
- 2
- xiāo xi
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 448
Part of speech: n
Character by character
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.
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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.
- 信息xìn xīHSK 2
information; news; message
- 休息xiū xiHSK 1
rest; to rest
- 消失xiāo shīHSK 3
to disappear; to fade away
- 取消qǔ xiāoHSK 3
to cancel; cancellation
- 消防xiāo fángHSK 5
firefighting; fire control
- 消除xiāo chúHSK 5
to eliminate; to remove
- 消灭xiāo mièHSK 6
to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory)
- 消费xiāo fèiHSK 3
to consume; to spend
- 消化xiāo huàHSK 4
to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
- 消xiāoHSK 7
to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take
- 气息qì xīHSK 7
breath; smell; odor; flavor
- 利息lì xīHSK 4
interest (on a loan)
- 消耗xiāo hàoHSK 6
to use up; to consume
- 消毒xiāo dúHSK 5
to disinfect; to sterilize
- 窒息zhì xīHSK 7
to choke; to stifle; to suffocate
- 消费者xiāo fèi zhěHSK 5
consumer
- 消极xiāo jíHSK 5
negative; passive; inactive
- 平息píng xīHSK 7
to settle (a dispute); to quieten down; to suppress
- 消遣xiāo qiǎnHSK 7
to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of
- 喘息chuǎn xīHSK 7
to gasp for breath; to take a breather
- 抵消dǐ xiāoHSK 7
to counteract; to cancel out; to offset
- 消沉xiāo chénHSK 7
depressed; bad mood; low spirit
- 息息相关xī xī xiāng guānHSK 7
closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
- 出息chū xiHSK 7
future prospects; profit; to mature; to grow up