消減

Chinese

		consume; news; subside consume; news; subside; to disappear; to vanish	to lower; to decrease; to reduce to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish
trad. (消減)		消	減
simp. (消减)		消	减

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāojiǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ ㄐㄧㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāojiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ ㄐㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siaojiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹-chien³
    • Yale: syāu-jyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiaujean
    • Palladius: сяоцзянь (sjaoczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Verb

消減

1. to ebb; to go down; to decline; to abate
2. to reduce; to decrease; to cut; to minimise

Synonyms

• (to ebb):

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• 消退 (xiāotuì)
• 減退 / 减退 (jiǎntuì)
• 衰弱 (shuāiruò)
• 衰退 (shuāituì)

 

• (to reduce):

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• 削 (literary, or in compounds)
• 削減 / 削减 (xuējiǎn)
• 壓縮 / 压缩 (yāsuō)
• 損 / 损 (sǔn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 撤 (chè)
• 收縮 / 收缩 (shōusuō)
• 減低 / 减低 (jiǎndī)
• 減削 / 减削 (jiǎnxuè)
• 減少 / 减少 (jiǎnshǎo)
• 減損 / 减损 (jiǎnsǔn)
• 減縮 / 减缩 (jiǎnsuō)
• 減輕 / 减轻 (jiǎnqīng)
• 省卻 / 省却 (shěngquè)
• 砍 (kǎn)
• 緊縮 / 紧缩 (jǐnsuō)
• 縮減 / 缩减 (suōjiǎn)
• 耗
• 裁 (cái)
• 裁汰 (cáitài) (literary)
• 裁減 / 裁减 (cáijiǎn)
• 鐫汰 / 镌汰 (juāntài) (literary)
• 降低 (jiàngdī)