消磨 — Semantide dictionary

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to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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消

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to diminish; to subside, to consume; to reduce, to idle away (the time), (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take

Pinyin: xiāo

Strokes: 10
Frequency: 16244 of 2500

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磨

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to rub, to grind, to polish, to sharpen, to wear down, to die out, to waste time, to pester, to insist

Pinyin: mó

Strokes: 16
Frequency: 15087 of 2500

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