Chinese symbol for “disappear”
消失
xiāo shī
to disappear; to fade away
The closest CC-CEDICT match for disappear is 消失 (xiāo shī), defined as: to disappear; to fade away.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “disappear”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绝 (絕) | jué | to cut short; extinct |
| 失踪 (失蹤) | shī zōng | to be missing; to disappear |
| 烟消云散 (煙消雲散) | yān xiāo yún sàn | (idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear |
| 隐去 (隱去) | yǐn qù | to disappear; to hide |
| 泯灭 (泯滅) | mǐn miè | to obliterate; to die out |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消失.
| 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) |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 失去 | shī qù | to lose |
| 失败 (失敗) | shī bài | to be defeated; to lose |
| 损失 (損失) | sǔn shī | loss; damage |
See also: Japanese symbol for “disappear”.
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.