消
xiāo HSK3

vanish

消 xiāo
diminish verb
to diminish, subside, or vanish

积雪已经消了。

jī​xuě yǐ​jīng xiāo le.

The accumulated snow has melted.

consume verb
to consume, spend, or idle away time or resources

这种活动很消磨时间。

zhè zhǒng huó​dòng hěn xiāo mó shí​jiān.

This kind of activity is a real time-killer.

need verb
to need, require, or take (often used after 不 bù, 只 zhǐ, or 何 hé)

只消几天工夫就能做好。

zhǐ xiāo jǐ tiān gōng​fu jiù néng zuò hǎo.

It will only take a few days to get it done.

Frequency
Character
Written text
439th most common 497.5 per million
Movie subtitles
387th most common 386.5 per million appears in 83% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.48 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
20.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6D88

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)