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休
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- 休
- xiū · rest, stop; retire; do not!
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1 · xiu1
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 12 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
heoi2 · jau1 · jyu3 · nau2
Cantonese word readings for 休. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to rest; to relax
- joyous; happy
- (archaic, literary) glory; virtue; goodness (what is worthy of praise and celebration)
- (archaic, literary) bliss; auspicious omen
- to stop; to cease
- to retire
- (historical) to cast off one’s wife and send her home; to divorce one's wife
- do not; don't
- a surname
- a transliteration of the English male given name Hugh
character · Etymology 2
- (alt-of, obsolete) obsolete form of 煦 (“warm”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 咻 (“groaning sound”)
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