消
xiāo HSK3

vanish

消 xiāo
news noun
(literary) news; information; message
to vanish verb
to disappear; to vanish; to subside or gradually diminish until gone
to eliminate verbnoun
(bound form) to eliminate; to dispel or remove
to consume nounverb
to spend; to consume; to use up (money, resources, etc.)
to while away nounverb
to pass or idle away (time); to dispel (boredom or heat)
to need verb
to need or require; often used in the negative 不消 bù​xiāo meaning "no need to" or with 只 zhǐ meaning "only need to"
to withstand
(literary) to withstand or bear; to endure
surname
a Chinese surname

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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)