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HSK
(piece of) news; information / message / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
to disappear; to fade away
HSK 3
to consume (goods and services, resources etc)
HSK 3
to digest (food) / (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
HSK 4
to disinfect; to sterilize
HSK 5
firefighting / fire control
HSK 5
to eliminate / to remove
HSK 5
negative / passive / inactive
HSK 5
consumer
HSK 5
to put an end to / to annihilate / to cause to perish / to perish / annihilation (in quantum field theory)
HSK 6
to consume; to use up / to deplete; to expend / (old) news; mail; message
HSK 6
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to diminish; to subside / to consume; to reduce / to idle away (the time) / (after or or etc) to need; to require; to take
HSK 7-9
to sink into despondency / (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet
HSK 7-9
to while the time away / amusement / pastime / recreation / to make sport of
HSK 7-9
Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei (CFCT) (abbr. for 中華民國消費者文教基金會|中华民国消费者文教基金会)
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime
to waste away / to become thin
noise reduction equipment
fire exit / (firefighting) fire lane
consumable goods; expendable item
firefighter; fireman
fire brigade / fire department
to dissipate
to silence
fire engine / fire truck
digestive system / gastrointestinal tract
to spend a summer holiday / to beat the summer heat
consumer group
well-informed source; person with inside information
consumer goods
indigestion
to avoid calamities
to reduce fever / antipyretic / to decrease inflammation
to cool one's temper
fire hydrant
consumer price index CPI
war of attrition
digestive enzyme
sound dissipation / noise reduction
to hide / to retreat into privacy
to fade away
to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
anti-inflammatory medicine
disinfectant
to aid digestion
digestive glands
nighttime snack / late-night supper
consumption data / consumer goods
digestive fluid
to eliminate / to dispel / resolution
fire station
(literary) to eliminate / to put an end to
silencer
to melt (e.g. an icecap)
fire hydrant
to calm down / to stop / to pause / calmly / peaceful / restful
wear and tear / to wear away over time
to die out / to wither away
condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in TCM with type 2 diabetes
to spend one's leisure time / to idle away the time
to bear / to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
to eliminate / to obliterate
to spend the summer / to take a summer vacation
overwhelmed (with joy, sorrow etc) / to feel transported
to reduce swelling / detumescence / (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
to eliminate
(optics) extinction
to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc)
fire department
rate of consumption
web feed / news feed / syndicated feed
voucher; coupon
consumer protection officer (Tw)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
hand sanitizer
consumer protection (law)
consumer-grade; consumer-level
message queue (computing)
anti-alias (computer graphics)
to avoid calamities and evil spirits
to be well-informed
consumer finance (abbr. for 消費金融|消费金融)
elimination (math) / to eliminate one variable from equations
digestive tube / gut
digestive tract
digestif
lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom / to dispel depression or melancholy / to relieve stress / a relaxing pass-time
passive / passivity / negative / negativity
to remove ambiguity / disambiguation (in Wikipedia)
intermittently
antipyretic tablet (to reduce fever), such as sulfanilamide
to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away
to kill time
to corrode; to erode; to wear away (lit. and fig.)
consumption tax / sales tax
consumer finance
to wane / to vanish gradually
to dispel (doubts) / to clear up (misunderstanding)
erhua variant of 消閒|消闲
fireman

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