休 - Mandarin word #5253

休

xiū

Traditional: 休

#5253 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to rest, to cease (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

休

。

Let's take a rest.

。

You need a good rest.

周zhōu末mò。

Weekends are for rest.

班bān。

Today we are off work.

养yǎng。

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.

休息

to rest, to take a break; rest

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 休.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 106.