(xiū) - to rest, to cease (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
xiūTraditional: 休
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Translation
to rest, to cease (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing a person (亻) leaning against a tree (木), depicting someone taking a rest, hence to rest or to cease.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 亻 (person) + 木 (tree)
Stroke order
休
Examples
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Let's take a rest.
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You need a good rest.
。
Weekends are for rest.
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Today we are off work.
养。
He is recovering at home.
休 (xiū) means to rest or to cease. It is a bound morpheme and chiefly appears in 休息 (xiū xi), to rest.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 休.
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