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消耗

xiāo hào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

消耗 (xiāo hào) means "to use up". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 消耗 means

1. to consume; to use up
2. to deplete; to expend
3. oldnews; mail; message

The characters in 消耗

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume

Example sentences

• 瑞士人消耗不少啤酒。
  Ruìshìrén xiāohào bù shǎo píjiǔ.
  The Swiss consume a large amount of beer.
• 农业需要消耗的大量水。
  Nóngyè xūyào xiāohào de dàliàng shuǐ.
  Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.
• 农业需要消耗大量的水。
  Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.
• 我们消耗了所有的自然资源。
  Wǒmen xiāohào le suǒyǒu de zìránzīyuán.
  We have consumed all the natural resources.
• 东欧的酒精消耗量比西欧高。
  Dōng ōu de jiǔjīng xiāohàoliàng bǐ Xī'ōu gāo.
  Alcohol consumption is higher in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
• 这座巧克力工厂每一天消耗二十公吨可可原料。
  This chocolate factory consumes twenty metric tons of raw cocoa per day.

Words starting with 消耗

• 消耗品xiāo hào pǐnconsumable goods; expendable item
• 消耗战xiāo hào zhànwar of attrition
• 消耗量xiāo hào liàngrate of consumption

Sounds the same

Read xiāo hào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 销号to close an account; to cancel a (phone) number

Where 消耗 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāo hào correctly.
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