(tuì xiū) - to retire in Mandarin
tuìxiūTraditional: 退休
Translation
to retire
Word origin
A compound of 退 (tuì, to withdraw or step back) and 休 (xiū, to rest), so withdrawing from work in order to rest.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 退 (tuì, to withdraw) + 休 (xiū, to rest)
Stroke order
退
休
Examples
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My father retired last year.
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After he retired he started learning to paint.
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She has five years to go before she retires.
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Retired life is even busier than he expected.
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On the day the teacher retired, all the pupils came.
退休 (tuì xiū) is to retire from working life. It is a verb, and it behaves like one: 他退休了 he has retired, 我明年退休 I retire next year, 快退休了 about to retire.
Because it is a verb, English nouns built on retire need rebuilding. My retirement becomes 我退休以后 after I retire, or 退休生活 retired life; a retirement age is 退休年龄 and a pension is 退休金. Learners regularly try 我的退休很好 and it lands wrong.
Do not stretch it to cover leaving a job in general. Quitting is 辞职, being let go is 被辞退, and a footballer hanging up his boots at thirty-four is usually 退役 rather than 退休. 退休 specifically means reaching the end of a working career, which in mainland practice is tied to a legal age.
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