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消亡

xiāo wáng

2-character word

What 消亡 means

1. to die out
2. to wither away

The characters in 消亡

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 亡wángto die; to lose; to be gone

Example sentences

• 古老的信仰即使被证明是错误的，也很难消亡。
  Gǔlǎo de xìnyǎng jíshǐ bèi zhèngmíng shì cuòwù de, yě hěn nán xiāowáng.
  Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.