消除

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiāochú

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠㄔㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹ ceoi⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): siau-tîr / siau-tû / siau-tî

(Teochew, Peng'im): siao¹ de⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiāochú
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠㄔㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siaochú
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao¹-chʻu²
  - Yale: syāu-chú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiauchwu
  - Palladius: сяочу (sjaoču)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu¹ ceoi⁴
  - Yale: sīu chèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹ tsoey⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹ cêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau-tîr
  - Tâi-lô: siau-tîr
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³ tɯ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau-tû
  - Tâi-lô: siau-tû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siau'duu
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴⁻³³ tu²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴⁻³³ tu²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴⁻²² tu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau-tî
  - Tâi-lô: siau-tî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siau'dii
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴⁻²² ti¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: siao¹ de⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siau tṳ̂
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau³³⁻²³ tɯ⁵⁵/

Note: siao1 de5 - Shantou.

Verb

消除

to remove; to clear; to eliminate; to dispel
消除隱患／消除隐患 ― xiāochú yǐnhuàn ― to remove hidden dangers

消除愚昧 ― xiāochú yúmèi ― to eliminate ignorance

消除感染 ― xiāochú gǎnrǎn ― elimination of infection

Synonyms

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免
免除 (miǎnchú)
刷 (colloquial)
削 (literary, or in compounds)
削除 (xuēchú)
去掉 (qùdiào)
去除 (qùchú)
報銷 / 报销 (bàoxiāo) (figurative, humorous)
屏除 (bǐngchú)
廓清 (kuòqīng)
打掉 (dǎdiào)
掃 / 扫
排解 (páijiě)
排除 (páichú)
掃除 / 扫除 (sǎochú) (figurative)
摒除
撤 (chè)
撤除 (chèchú)
消 (xiāo)
消弭 (xiāomǐ) (literary)
消解 (xiāojiě)
消釋 / 消释 (xiāoshì) (figurative)
淘汰 (táotài)
清洗 (qīngxǐ) (figurative)
清除 (qīngchú)
破 (pò) (literary, or in compounds)
破壞 / 破坏 (pòhuài)
破除 (pòchú)
祛除 (qūchú)
罷 / 罢
翦落 (jiǎnluò) (literary)
肅清 / 肃清 (sùqīng)
蕩 / 荡 (dàng) (literary, or in compounds)
解釋 / 解释 (jiěshì) (archaic)
解除 (jiěchú)
鋤 / 锄 (chú)
鏟除 / 铲除 (chǎnchú)
除
除去 (chúqù)
除忒 (Hakka)
除掉 (chúdiào)
除開 / 除开 (chúkāi)
革除 (géchú)
驅散 / 驱散 (qūsàn)
驅走 / 驱走 (qūzǒu)
驅除 / 驱除 (qūchú)

Derived terms

消除飲食 / 消除饮食 (xiāochú yǐnshí)

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 sjew drjo|drjoH, literally “to vanish + to remove”). Compare modern Mandarin reading xiāochú, Min Nan siau-tû.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しょーじょ [shóꜜòjò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːʑo̞]

Noun

消(しょう)除(じょ) • (shōjo) ^{←せうぢよ (seudyo)^?}

vanishing, disappearance, removal, erasure

Verb

消(しょう)除(じょ)する • (shōjo suru) ^{←せうぢよ (seudyo)^?}transitive or intransitive suru (stem 消(しょう)除(じょ)し (shōjo shi), past 消(しょう)除(じょ)した (shōjo shita))

(intransitive) to vanish, to disappear
(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

Conjugation of "消除する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	消除し	しょうじょし	shōjo shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	消除し	しょうじょし	shōjo shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	消除する	しょうじょする	shōjo suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	消除する	しょうじょする	shōjo suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	消除すれ	しょうじょすれ	shōjo sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	消除せよ¹ 消除しろ²	しょうじょせよ¹ しょうじょしろ²	shōjo seyo¹ shōjo shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	消除される	しょうじょされる	shōjo sareru
Causative	消除させる消除さす	しょうじょさせるしょうじょさす	shōjo saseru shōjo sasu
Potential	消除できる	しょうじょできる	shōjo dekiru
Volitional	消除しよう	しょうじょしよう	shōjo shiyō
Negative	消除しない	しょうじょしない	shōjo shinai
Negative continuative	消除せず	しょうじょせず	shōjo sezu
Formal	消除します	しょうじょします	shōjo shimasu
Perfective	消除した	しょうじょした	shōjo shita
Conjunctive	消除して	しょうじょして	shōjo shite
Hypothetical conditional	消除すれば	しょうじょすれば	shōjo sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“消除”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[2] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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