You look tired. You should rest a little.
歇息
to have a rest
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Meaning and common use
to have a rest
to stay for the night
to go to bed
to sleep
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.
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.
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
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.
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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