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休息

xiū xi 1–5

rest; to rest

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
休 · 息
Syllables
2
xiū xi
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,225

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 休xiū6 strokesHSK 1rest, stop; retire; do not!
  • 息xī10 strokesHSK 1rest, put stop to, end, cease

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我们可以休息。

    Wǒ men kě yǐ xiū xi

    We can rest.

  • 现在休息一下。

    Xiàn zài xiū xi yī xià

    Let's take a break now.

  • 我想休息一下。

    Wǒ xiǎng xiū xi yī xià

    I feel like a rest.

  • 他休息了一会儿。

    Tā xiū xi le yī huì r

    He rested for a while.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 休息. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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