Meanings
- extinguish
- blow out
- turn off
- neutralize
- cancel
Strokes10
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#345 of 2,500
Kanji N3
消: extinguish, blow out, turn off
消 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning extinguish, blow out, turn off, written with 10 strokes. It is read ショウ (on) and きえる, けす (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 消費 (しょうひ, consumption) and 消防 (しょうぼう, fire fighting).
消
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ショウ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- きえる
- けす
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 消
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- JLPT N3
- JLPT N3
- 消しゴムけしゴムJLPT N4
eraser; rubber
- 消すけすJLPT N5
to erase; to rub out; to rub off; to cross out
- 消えるきえるJLPT N5
to disappear; to vanish; to go out of sight
- JLPT N2
- JLPT N1
- JLPT N2
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