休 (xiū)
to rest/to stop/to retire/do not!
How 休 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 休
- Simplified
- 休 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 木 tree
Common words using 休
- 休息 xiūxi
- rest; to rest
- 休假 xiūjià
- to take a vacation; to go on holiday
- 休閒 xiūxián
- leisure; relaxation; not working
- 午休 wǔxiū
- noon break; lunch break; lunchtime nap
- 退休 tuìxiū
- to retire; retirement (from work)
- 不休 bùxiū
- endlessly; ceaselessly
- 介休 jièxiū
- Jiexiu county level city in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
- 介休市 jièxiūshì
- Jiexiu county level city in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
- 休伊特 xiūyītè
- Hewitt
- 休倫湖 xiūlúnhú
- Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖[Wu3 da4 hu2]
- 休克 xiūkè
- shock; to go into shock
- 休妻 xiūqī
- to repudiate one's wife
休 in a sentence
走了這麼久，我們先休息一下吧。
Zǒu le zhème jiǔ, wǒmen xiān xiūxí yíxià ba.
“We've walked for so long; let's take a rest first.”
How common is 休?
休 is the 1,080th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.4% of all running text.
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