消化
xiāo huàㄒㄧㄠ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Sino-Vietnamese: TIÊU HÓA
Traditional: 消化
HSK 5HSK 3.0 · 5TOCFL 4
Meaning(verb, verbal noun)
to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
Examples
吃太快不容易消化。
chī tài kuài bù róng yì xiāo huà.
Eating too fast makes it hard to digest.
最近我的消化不太好。
zuì jìn wǒ de xiāo huà bú tài hǎo.
My digestion hasn't been great lately.
今天学的内容太多,我需要时间消化。
jīn tiān xué de nèi róng tài duō, wǒ xū yào shí jiān xiāo huà.
We covered too much today; I need time to digest it.
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Stroke order
TIÊU · 10 strokes
to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take
HOÁ · 4 strokes
variant of 花
Related words
- 消息 xiāo xi — news; information
- 消失 xiāo shī — to disappear; to fade away
- 取消 qǔ xiāo — to cancel; cancellation
- 消灭 xiāo miè — to put an end to; to annihilate; to cause to perish; to perish; annihilation (in quantum field theory)
- 消费 xiāo fèi — to consume; to spend
- 消防 xiāo fáng — firefighting; fire control
- 消除 xiāo chú — to eliminate; to remove
- 消耗 xiāo hào — to use up; to consume