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息
Mandarin · pinyin xī
Meanings
- (bound form) breath
- (bound form) to cease; to stop
- (bound form) to rest
- (bound form) news
- (bound form) interest (on money)
- (bound form) to grow; to multiply
- (literary) one's child
- Taiwan pr. xí
Characters in this entry
- 息
- xī · rest, put stop to, end, cease
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Mandarin tones
1 · xi1
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sak1 · sik1
Cantonese word readings for 息. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to breathe; to pant
- to sigh; to blow
- to stop; to subside; to cease
- to put a stop to; to stop
- to rest; to have a rest
- to grow; to develop
- to calm down; to appease
- breath; life
- one's own children
- interest; dividends
- message; news
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