消融

xiāoróng
to melt (e.g. an icecap)

CEDICT

  1. (medicine) to ablate
  2. to ablate
  3. to disappear; to vanish
  4. to melt; to thaw (of ice or snow)

Wiktionary

融化、消失。

重編國語辭典

  1. 物体消失、融化。
  2. 雪原、冰川、海冰等形态上的雪、粒雪或冰的损耗。

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 消 xiāo
  1. to diminish; to subside
  2. to consume; to reduce
  3. to idle away (the time)
  4. (after 不 bù or 只 zhǐ or 何 hé etc) to need; to require; to take
=2 融 róng
  1. to melt
  2. to thaw
  3. to blend
  4. to merge
  5. to be in harmony
=2 融 róng old variant of 融 róng

Containing this entry

消融術 xiāoróngshù

Related entries

泮 pàn
  1. (literary) to melt
  2. to dissolve
溶化 rónghuà
  1. to melt
  2. to dissolve (of sugar etc)
熔化 rónghuà to melt (of ice, metals etc)
熔融 róngróng
  1. to melt
  2. to fuse
融 róng
  1. to melt
  2. to thaw
  3. to blend
  4. to merge
  5. to be in harmony
冰融了就會化成水。

When ice melts, it becomes water.

Source: Tatoeba

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