消化
xiāo​huà HSK4

to digest

消化 xiāo​huà
to digest verbnoun
(of a person or animal) to break down food in the digestive system into nutrients

香蕉很容易消化。

xiāng​jiāo hěn róng​yì xiāo​huà.

Bananas are easily digestible.

所以，避免在晚上8点后吃饭，以便给你的身体足够的时间消化。

suǒ​yǐ, bì​miǎn zài wǎn​shang8 diǎn hòu chī fàn, yǐ​biàn gěi nǐ de shēn​tǐ zú​gòu de shí​jiān xiāo​huà.

So, avoid eating after 8 pm to give your body enough time to digest.

to absorb verb
to thoroughly understand and integrate new knowledge, information, or technology

他们学得不错，但似乎还需要一些时间来消化信息。

tā​men xué de bù​cuò, dàn sì​hū hái xū​yào yī​xiē shí​jiān lái xiāo​huà xìn​xī.

They learn well but seem to need time to digest information.

to eliminate
(literary) to gradually eliminate or clear away
to sell off
(of goods or inventory) to be sold or cleared from the market

Frequency
Movie subtitles
6.68 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
31.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)