Chinese symbol for “digest”
消化
xiāo huà
to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
The closest CC-CEDICT match for digest is 消化 (xiāo huà), defined as: to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “digest”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文摘 | wén zhāi | digest (of literature); to make a digest (of data) |
| 选录 (選錄) | xuǎn lù | an excerpt; a digest |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
| 取消 | qǔ xiāo | to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “digest”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.