(xī) - breath, news, to rest (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
xīTraditional: 息
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Translation
breath, news, to rest (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character combining 自 (zì, originally a picture of the nose) over 心 (xīn, heart), depicting breath rising from the heart, hence breath and, by extension, to rest and news.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 自 (nose) + 心 (xīn, heart)
Stroke order
息
Examples
。
I just heard some good news.
。
You should rest properly.
。
I need more information.
。
He sits down to rest.
，。
Please be quiet, do not make a sound.
息 (xī) literally means breath, and from that it stretches to rest (休息) and to news or message (消息, 信息). It almost never stands alone in modern Mandarin.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 息.
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