息 (xī)
news/interest/breath/rest/Taiwan pr. [xi2]
How 息 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 自 — self
- Traditional
- 息
- Simplified
- 息 (unchanged)
Common words using 息
- 休息 xiūxi
- rest; to rest
- 信息 xìnxī
- information; news; message
- 消息 xiāoxi
- news; information; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 作息 zuòxī
- work and rest
- 出息 chūxī
- to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism)
- 嘆息 tànxī
- to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
- 氣息 qìxī
- breath; smell; odor
- 窒息 zhìxī
- to choke; to stifle; to suffocate
- 休息室 xiūxīshì
- lobby; lounge
- 休養生息 xiūyǎngshēngxī
- to recover; to recuperate
- 低息 dīxī
- low-interest
- 信息化 xìnxīhuà
- informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
息 in a sentence
你有聽到那個好消息嗎？
Nǐ yǒu tīngdào nàge hǎo xiāoxí ma?
“Did you hear that good news?”
How common is 息?
息 is the 428th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 72.5% of all running text.
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