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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

歇息

xiēxi

to have a rest

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to have a rest

02

to stay for the night

03

to go to bed

04

to sleep

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 歇息 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 歇息 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你看起来累了。你该歇息一会儿了。nǐ kàn qǐ lái lèi le。 nǐ gāi xiē xī yī huì er le。

You look tired. You should rest a little.

每一天都是一生;每一次起床醒来都是次微小的新生,每个清新的早晨都带着点青春,每次歇息和睡眠都是次小小的死亡。měi yī tiān dōu shì yī shēng; měi yī cì qǐ chuáng xǐng lái dōu shì cì wēi xiǎo de xīn shēng, měi gè qīng xīn de zǎo chén dōu dài zhe diǎn qīng chūn, měi cì xiē xī hé shuì mián dōu shì cì xiǎo xiǎo de sǐ wáng。

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 歇息.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 歇息.

Directly before

  • 该歇息1
  • 每次歇息1

Directly after

  • 歇息一会儿1
  • 歇息和1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 歇息

What does 歇息 mean in Chinese?

歇息 (xiēxi) means to have a rest.

How do you pronounce 歇息?

歇息 is pronounced xiēxi.

Is 歇息 an HSK word?

歇息 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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