IDENTITY
休xiūto rest
HSK 2Top 870
CORE MEANING
to rest
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to restHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亻person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亻木
- person
- tree
USAGE
Common words
休息xiūxito rest
退休tuìxiūto retire
Graded examples
他累了，想休息。Tā lèi le, xiǎng xiūxi.HSK2
He is tired and wants to rest.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (亻) leaning against a tree (木) — resting.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #870
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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