撤消 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chè omit, remove

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 𢾿 represents the sound.

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

chè, wén remove, take away

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𢾿 than it was in ancient scripts.

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	drjet	m-tʰret	remove, take away
	trhjet	tʰret	remove, take away

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

肖 Sound component

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjew	[s]ew	dissolve; disappear

《說文》：“消，盡也。从水，肖聲。”