ショウ, き.える, け.す
extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel

This kanji has 10 strokes: 4 in the "water" radical (みず) and 6 other strokes.

Sample compounds (24) :


  1. けす
    to erase, to delete, to turn off power
  2. える
    きえる
    to go out, to vanish
  3. しゴム
    けしゴム
    eraser, India rubber
  4. インク
    インクけし
    ink eraser
  5. せる
    きえうせる
    (X) (vulg) to disappear, to get out of sight, to die, (in imperative) to fuck off

  6. しょうか
    (vs) digestion

  7. たたきけす
    to beat out (a fire)

  8. ふきけす
    to blow out (a flame)

  9. しょうきょ
    (vs) elimination, erasing, dying out, melting away

  10. しょうこう
    (vs) passing ones time

  11. ちょうけし
    cancellation, writing off

  12. うちけし
    (gram) negation, denial, negative

  13. うちけし
    (gram) negation, denial, negative
  14. める
    けしとめる
    to put out, to extinguish

  15. しょうどく
    (vs) disinfection, sterilization

  16. しょうか
    (vs) fire fighting, extinguishing a fire

  17. しょうとう
    (vs) putting out (switching off) the light, extinction

  18. しょうこう
    (vs) exhaustion, consumption

  19. とりけし
    cancellation, cancel (CAN)

  20. とりけし
    cancellation, cancel (CAN)

  21. しょうそく
    news, letter, circumstances

  22. つやけし
    (a-no) frosted (glass), matted

  23. しょうひ
    (vs) consumption, expenditure

  24. すみけし
    blotting out characters with ink
Kanji Character : 消
Kuten Encoding : 3035
SJIS Encoding : 3e43
Unicode Encoding : 6d88
Old Nelson Index : 2574
Radical Number : 85
Frequency Ranking : 332
Gakken Index : 336
Grade Level : 3
Halpern Index : 443
Heisig Index : 144
Henshall Index : 316
New Nelson Index : 3158
Stroke Count : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3a7.16
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 7
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 16
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 845
SKIP Code : 1-3-7
De Roo Code : 346
Four Corner Code : 3912.7
Korean reading : so
Pinyin reading : xiao1
Morohashi Index String : 17529P
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 6.1187
Morohashi Index Number : 17529
Morohashi Page : 1187
Morohashi Volume : 6
Morohashi entry is Prime : true
Dictionary Codes
  1. R346
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