| Kanji | 消 | 
|---|---|
| Onyomi | ショウ | 
| Kunyomi | き.える、け.す | 
| English | extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel | 
| Examples | 消費(しょうひ): consumption; expenditure 消極的(しょうきょくてき): negative; half-hearted; passive; unmotivated; pessimistic 消防(しょうぼう): fire fighting; fire department 消息(しょうそく): (1) news (from somebody); letter; contact (2) (somebody's) whereabouts; (somebody's) movements 消しゴム(けしゴム): eraser; India rubber 消化(しょうか): (1) digestion (2) thorough understanding (3) selling accumulated (excess) products; dealing with a large amount of work (4) losing one's form and turning into something else 消毒(しょうどく): disinfection; sterilization; sterilisation 取り消す(とりけす): to cancel; to withdraw; to retract; to take back (words, etc.); to revoke 消耗(しょうもう): exhaustion; consumption; waste; dissipation 打消す(うちけす): (1) to deny; to contradict (2) to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out 打消し(うちけし): negation; denial; negative 消す(けす): (1) to erase; to delete; to cross out (2) to turn off power (3) to extinguish; to put out (4) to bump off 消える(きえる): to go out; to vanish; to disappear 消防署(しょうぼうしょ): fire station 消去(しょうきょ): elimination; erasure; dying out; clearing; purge; melting away | 
| JLPT Level | 3 | 
| Jouyou Grade | 3 | 
| Frequency | 345 | 
| Components | 水: water 肖: resemblance | 
| Number of Strokes | 10 | 
| Kanji Radical | 水 | 
| Radical Number | 85 | 
| Radical Strokes | 4 | 
| Radical Reading | みず・したみず・さんずい | 
| Traditional Form | (none) | 
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic | 
| Keyword | extinguish | 
| Koohii Story 1 | To extinguish a SPARK, you need WATER. | 
| Koohii Story 2 | You need a few drops of water to extinguish the candle. | 
| RTK Index (new) | 155 | 
Tags: jlpt.n3, grade3, kanjifreq251-500
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