消失
Meaning
- to disappear; to fade away
Example sentence
雪消失了。
The snow has disappeared.
Characters in 消失
- 消 xiāo to vanish, to dissolve; to eliminate
- 失 shī to lose; to fail, to miss
消 to vanish plus 失, to lose. 消 gives 消息 and 消费; 失 gives 失去 and 失败. The pair is intransitive — a thing vanishes, nobody vanishes it.