| 消 | [ ] to disappear, to vanish, to eliminate, to spend (time), have to, need |
| 消亡 | [ wáng ] to die out, to wither away |
| 消保官 | [ baǒ guān ] consumer protection officer (Tw) |
| 消停 | [ tíng ] to calm down, to stop, to pause, calmly, peaceful, restful |
| 消元 | [ yuán ] elimination (math), to eliminate one variable from equations |
| 消化 | [ huà ] to digest, digestion, digestive |
| 消化不良 | [ huà bù liáng ] indigestion |
| 消化液 | [ huà yè ] digestive fluid |
| 消化管 | [ huà guǎn ] digestive tube, gut |
| 消化系統 | [ huà xì tǒng ] digestive system, gastrointestinal tract |
| 消化腺 | [ huà xiàn ] digestive glands |
| 消化道 | [ huà daò ] digestive tract |
| 消化酒 | [ huà jiǔ ] digestif |
| 消化酶 | [ huà meí ] digestive enzyme |
| 消去 | [ qù ] to eliminate |
| 消受 | [ shoù ] to bear, to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy) |
| 消基會 | [ jī huì ] Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei (CFCT), abbr. for 中華民國消費者文教基金會|中华民国消费者文教基金会 |
| 消夏 | [ xià ] to spend the summer, to take a summer vacation |
| 消夜 | [ yè ] nighttime snack, late-night supper |
| 消失 | [ shī ] to disappear, to fade away |
| 消弭 | [ mǐ ] (literary) to eliminate, to put an end to |
| 消息 | [ xi ] news, information, CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 消息來源 | [ xi laí yuán ] web feed, news feed, syndicated feed |
| 消息隊列 | [ xi duì liè ] message queue (computing) |
| 消息靈通 | [ xi líng tōng ] to be well-informed |
| 消息靈通人士 | [ xi líng tōng rén shì ] well-informed source, person with inside information |
| 消愁解悶 | [ choú jiě mèn ] lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom, to dispel depression or melancholy, to relieve stress, a relaxing pass-time |
| 消損 | [ sǔn ] wear and tear, to wear away over time |
| 消散 | [ sàn ] to dissipate |
| 消暑 | [ shǔ ] to spend a summer holiday, (esp of Chinese medicine) to relieve summer heat |
| 消極 | [ jí ] negative, passive, inactive |
| 消極性 | [ jí xìng ] passive, passivity, negative, negativity |
| 消歧義 | [ qí yì ] to remove ambiguity, disambiguation (in Wikipedia) |
| 消毒 | [ dú ] to disinfect, to sterilize |
| 消毒劑 | [ dú jì ] disinfectant |
| 消毒法 | [ dú fǎ ] sterilization |
| 消毒洗手液 | [ dú xǐ shoǔ yè ] hand sanitizer |
| 消氣 | [ qì ] to cool one's temper |
| 消沉 | [ chén ] depressed, bad mood, low spirit |
| 消泯 | [ mǐn ] to eliminate, to obliterate |
| 消消停停 | [ tíng tíng ] intermittently |
| 消渴 | [ kě ] condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in TCM with type 2 diabetes |
| 消滅 | [ miè ] to put an end to, to annihilate, to cause to perish, to perish, annihilation (in quantum field theory) |
| 消火栓 | [ huǒ shuān ] fire hydrant |
| 消災 | [ zaī ] to avoid calamities |
| 消災避邪 | [ zaī bì xié ] to avoid calamities and evil spirits |
| 消炎 | [ yán ] to reduce fever, antipyretic, to decrease inflammation |
| 消炎片 | [ yán piàn ] antipyretic tablet (to reduce fever), such as sulfanilamide |
| 消炎藥 | [ yán yaò ] anti-inflammatory medicine |
| 消瘦 | [ shoù ] to waste away, to become thin |
| 消石灰 | [ shí huī ] calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2, slaked lime |
| 消磨 | [ mó ] to wear down, to sap, to whittle away, to while away, to idle away |
| 消磨時間 | [ mó shí jiān ] to kill time |
| 消耗 | [ haò ] to use up, to consume |
| 消耗戰 | [ haò zhàn ] war of attrition |
| 消耗量 | [ haò liàng ] rate of consumption |
| 消聲 | [ shēng ] sound dissipation, noise reduction |
| 消聲器 | [ shēng qì ] noise reduction equipment |
| 消腫 | [ zhǒng ] to reduce swelling, detumescence, (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc) |
| 消蝕 | [ shí ] erosion, wearing away, ablation |
| 消融 | [ róng ] to melt (e.g. an icecap) |
| 消解 | [ jiě ] to eliminate, to dispel, resolution |
| 消費 | [ feì ] to consume, to spend |
| 消費價格指數 | [ feì jià gé zhǐ shù ] consumer price index CPI |
| 消費品 | [ feì pǐn ] consumer goods |
| 消費器件 | [ feì qì jiàn ] consumer |
| 消費稅 | [ feì shuì ] consumption tax, sales tax |
| 消費群 | [ feì qún ] consumer group |
| 消費者 | [ feì zhě ] consumer |
| 消費者保護 | [ feì zhě baǒ hù ] consumer protection (law) |
| 消費資料 | [ feì zī ] consumption data, consumer goods |
| 消費金融 | [ feì jīn róng ] consumer finance |
| 消退 | [ tuì ] to wane, to vanish gradually |
| 消逝 | [ shì ] to fade away |
| 消遣 | [ qiǎn ] to while the time away, amusement, pastime, recreation, to make sport of |
| 消釋 | [ shì ] to dispel (doubts), to clear up (misunderstanding) |
| 消金 | [ jīn ] consumer finance, abbr. of 消費金融|消费金融[xiao1 fei4 jin1 rong2] |
| 消長 | [ zhǎng ] to ebb and rise, to decrease and then grow |
| 消閒 | [ xián ] to spend one's leisure time, to idle away the time |
| 消閒兒 | [ xián ] erhua variant of 消閒|消闲[xiao1 xian2] |
| 消防 | [ fáng ] firefighting, fire control |
| 消防員 | [ fáng yuán ] firefighter, fireman |
| 消防局 | [ fáng jú ] fire department |
| 消防栓 | [ fáng shuān ] fire hydrant |
| 消防署 | [ fáng shǔ ] fire station |
| 消防車 | [ fáng chē ] fire engine, fire truck |
| 消防隊 | [ fáng duì ] fire brigade, fire department |
| 消防隊員 | [ fáng duì yuán ] fireman |
| 消除 | [ chú ] to eliminate, to remove |
| 消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約 | [ chú duì fù nǚ yī qiè xíng shì qí shì gōng yuē ] Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
| 消除歧義 | [ chú qí yì ] to disambiguate |
| 消除毒劑 | [ chú dú jì ] decontamination |
| 消除鋸齒 | [ chú jù chǐ ] anti-alias (computer graphics) |
| 消隱 | [ yǐn ] to hide, to retreat into privacy |
| 消音 | [ yīn ] to silence |
| 消音器 | [ yīn qì ] silencer |
| 消食 | [ shí ] to aid digestion |
| 消食兒 | [ shí ] erhua variant of 消食[xiao1 shi2] |
| 消魂 | [ hún ] overwhelmed (with joy, sorrow etc), to feel transported |
| ⇒ 三公消費 | [ sān gōng feì ] see 三公經費|三公经费[san1 gong1 jing1 fei4] |
| ⇒ 不消 | [ bù ] to not need, needless (to say) |
| ⇒ 中國消費者協會 | [ zhōng guó feì zhě xié huì ] China Consumers' Association (CCA) |
| ⇒ 內線消息 | [ neì xiàn xi ] insider information |
| ⇒ 冰消瓦解 | [ bīng wǎ jiě ] to melt like ice and break like tiles, to disintegrate, to dissolve |
| ⇒ 參考消息 | [ cān kaǒ xī ] Reference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper) |
| ⇒ 取消 | [ qǔ ] to cancel, cancellation |
| ⇒ 取消禁令 | [ qǔ jìn lìng ] to lift a prohibition, to lift a ban |
| ⇒ 只消 | [ zhǐ ] to only need, it only takes |
| ⇒ 吃不消 | [ chī bu ] to be unable to tolerate or endure, to find sth difficult to manage |
| ⇒ 吃得消 | [ chī de ] to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc), to be able to afford |
| ⇒ 吸附洗消劑 | [ xī fù xǐ jì ] absorbing decontaminant |
| ⇒ 夜消 | [ yè ] variant of 夜宵[ye4 xiao1] |
| ⇒ 對消 | [ duì ] in equilibrium, to cancel out (of opposite forces) (physics) |
| ⇒ 小道消息 | [ daò xi ] hearsay, gossip |
| ⇒ 居民消費價格指數 | [ jū mín feì jià gé zhǐ shù ] consumer price index CPI |
| ⇒ 打消 | [ dǎ ] to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc), to give up on |
| ⇒ 抵消 | [ dǐ ] to counteract, to cancel out, to offset |
| ⇒ 抹消 | [ mǒ ] to erase, to wipe |
| ⇒ 撤消 | [ chè ] variant of 撤銷|撤销[che4 xiao1] |
| ⇒ 杳無消息 | [ yaǒ wú xī ] see 杳無音信|杳无音信[yao3 wu2 yin1 xin4] |
| ⇒ 洗消 | [ xǐ ] decontamination |
| ⇒ 洗消劑 | [ xǐ jì ] decontaminant, decontaminating agent |
| ⇒ 洗消場 | [ xǐ chǎng ] decontaminating field |
| ⇒ 消消停停 | [ tíng tíng ] intermittently |
| ⇒ 無福消受 | [ wú fú shoù ] unfortunately cannot enjoy (idiom) |
| ⇒ 煙消雲散 | [ yān yún sàn ] to vanish like smoke in thin air, to disappear |
| ⇒ 與時消息 | [ yǔ shí xi ] variable with the times, transient, impermanent |
| ⇒ 走漏消息 | [ zoǔ loù xi ] to divulge secrets |
| ⇒ 超前消費 | [ chaō qián feì ] excessive consumption, overspending on luxuries |
| ⇒ 開消 | [ kaī ] variant of 開銷|开销[kai1 xiao1] |
| ⇒ 雲消霧散 | [ yún wù sàn ] the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom), to clear up, to vanish into thin air |