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Mythic Mandarin

消息 (xiāo xi): meaning and stroke order

消息 (xiāo xi) means (piece of) news; information, message, 条.

消息

Simplified
消息
Traditional
消息 (same form)
Pinyin
xiāo xi

Stroke order of 消息

消

  • xiāo to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

息

  • xī breath; news
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 消息

  1. xiāo xi
    • (piece of) news; information
    • message
    • CL:條|条[tiao2]

Radicals of the characters

消
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 10 strokes · 氵 on the left, 肖 on the right
息
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 10 strokes · 自 on top, 心 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

消息 in our stories

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  • 他妈妈在城东开了三十年的拉面馆，听到这个消息，手里的面“啪”的一声掉在了案板上。

    tā māma zài chéng dōng kāi le sānshí nián de lāmiànguǎn tīngdào zhè gè xiāoxi shǒu lǐ de miàn pā de yì shēng diào zài le ànbǎn shàng

    His mother had run a hand-pulled noodle shop on the east side of town for thirty years; when she heard the news, the dough in her hands dropped onto the board with a slap.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 消息

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).