Chinese symbol for “extinction”
消光
xiāo guāng
(optics) extinction
The closest CC-CEDICT match for extinction is 消光 (xiāo guāng), defined as: (optics) extinction.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “extinction”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绝种 (絕種) | jué zhǒng | extinct (species); extinction |
| 绝灭 (絕滅) | jué miè | to annihilate; to exterminate |
| 沦灭 (淪滅) | lún miè | to perish; extinction |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消光.
| 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 |
| 阳光 (陽光) | yáng guāng | sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic |
| 曝光 | bào guāng | to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “extinction”.
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.