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Kanji Detail for 耗 - "consume, decrease, exhaust"

  • Meaning

    耗 means "consume, decrease, exhaust."

    1. Consume - To use up; to expend.

    2. Decrease - To reduce; to diminish.

    3. Exhaust - To deplete; to wear out.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    decrease

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    consume, use up; waste, squander

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to consume, to use up; to squander, to waste

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To decrease. 消耗 means to have losses. Such as 耗米 (rice lost in processing), 米耗 (rice wastage). | News. From the term 消耗, it came to mean news. Such as 音耗 (tidings), 噩耗 (sad news of death).
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