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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

消亡

xiāowáng

to die out

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to die out

02

to wither away

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 消亡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 消亡 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

古老的信仰即使被证明是错误的,也很难消亡。gǔ lǎo de xìn yǎng jí shǐ bèi zhèng míng shì cuò wù de, yě hěn nán xiāo wáng。

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

格罗宁根方言快消亡了。gé luó níng gēn fāng yán kuài xiāo wáng le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他们说语言消亡的速度很快…tā men shuō yǔ yán xiāo wáng de sù dù hěn kuài…

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 消亡.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 消亡.

Directly before

  • 难消亡1
  • 语言消亡1
  • 快消亡1
  • 是消亡1

Directly after

  • 消亡的2
  • 消亡了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 消亡

What does 消亡 mean in Chinese?

消亡 (xiāowáng) means to die out.

How do you pronounce 消亡?

消亡 is pronounced xiāowáng.

Is 消亡 an HSK word?

消亡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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