消除

Chinese

 
consume; news; subside; to disappear; to vanish
 
remove; do away with; wipe out; divide; except
simp. and trad.
(消除)		 消 除

Pronunciation

Verb

消除

  1. to remove; to clear; to eliminate; to dispel
    消除愚昧  ―  xiāochú yúmèi  ―  to eliminate ignorance

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
消 除
しょう
Grade: 3		 じょ
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 消除 (MC siᴇu ɖɨʌ|ɖɨʌH, literally “to vanish + to remove”). Compare modern Mandarin reading xiāochú, Min Nan siau-tû.

Pronunciation

Noun

消除 (hiragana しょうじょ, rōmaji shōjo, historical hiragana せうぢょ)

  1. vanishing, disappearance, removal, erasure

Verb

消除する (transitive and intransitive, hiragana しょうじょする, rōmaji shōjo suru, historical hiragana せうぢょする)

  1. (intransitive) to vanish, to disappear
  2. (transitive) to make something vanish or disappear, to remove, to erase

Usage notes

This term is seldom used in modern Japanese, and is not included in some dictionaries.[2]

The more common terms are 消 (き)え失 (う)せる (kieuseru) for the transitive verb, or 除 (じょ)去 (きょ) (jokyo) for either the noun or verb.

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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