息 xī
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xī
noun
interest
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 利息 (Guoyu '息' n 3) -
xī
noun
news
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' n 4) -
xī
noun
breath
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' n 1; Kroll 2015 '息' 1) -
xī
noun
rest
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' v 2; Unihan '息') -
xī
verb
to put stop to; to end; to cease
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 自强不息 'to strenghen oneself without stopping' (CCI p. 36; CC-CEDICT '自強不息'; Guoyu '息' v 3; Guoyu '自強不息'; Kroll 2015 '息' 2; Unihan '息') -
xī
verb
to multiply; to increase
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' v 4; Kroll 2015 '息' 4) -
xī
noun
one's children
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' n 2; Kroll 2015 '息' 5) -
xī
noun
fat meat; fat
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 贅肉 (Guoyu '息' n 5) -
xī
proper noun
Xi
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '息' n 6) -
xī
verb
to breathe
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '息' v 1; Kroll 2015 '息' 1)
Contained in
- 安息 to rest; to go to sleep ; Parthia ; to make a safe home; to relax ; to pass away
- 窒息 to choke; to stifle; to suffocate
- 不息 not stopping ; not being wiped out; surviving ; not resting
- 将息(將息) to rest
- 息肩 to put down one's burden; to retire
- 息事宁人(息事寧人) to keep the peace/ to patch up a quarrel
- 瞬息 in a flash; twinkling; ephemeral
- 息息相关(息息相關) closely bound up; intimately related ; closely related
- 跂行喙息 [of an insect] to crawl and breathe
- 信息图(信息圖) infographic
- 生命不息,战斗不止(生命不息,戰鬥不止) while there is life, the fight continues; to fight to the last
- 悄无声息(悄無聲息) quietly; noiselessly
- 鼻息 breath
- 止息 to stop and rest
- 川流不息 the flow of an endless stream
- 作息时间表(作息時間表) daily schedule; work schedule
- 信息与通讯技术(信息與通訊技術) information and communication technology (ICT)
- 日出而作,日入而息 to get up at sunrise and work until sunset; to lead a plain and hardworking life
- 消息 news; information ; rise and fall; flow and ebb ; secret ; a hub
- 信息素 pheromone
- 栖息(棲息) to stay (for a rest); dwelling; perch (of birds)
- 加息 to raise interest rates
- 停息 to stop; to cease
- 休息 to rest ; to recuperate ; to be at peace
- 气息(氣息) breath; odor ; to breathe out; to pant
- 信息图形(信息圖形) infographic
- 调息法(調息法) Pranayama
- 息争(息爭) to settle a dispute
- 苏息(蘇息) to rest
- 胎息 embryonic breathing
- 孳息 growth
- 化学信息素(化學信息素) semiochemical
- 仰天太息 look up at the sky and gasp
- 安息香科 Styracaceae, tree family including silver-bell, snowdrop and benzoin
- 息率 interest rate
- 月息 monthly interest
- 贴息(貼息) to discount the interest on a bill of exchange
- 内线消息(內線消息) insider information
- 拆息 bank interest
- 信息 information; message; news
- 鼻息肉 nasal polyp
- 有息 interest-bearing (bank account)
Also contained in
息虑凝心 、 因特网信息服务器 、 信息安全 、 头信息 、 移动信息设备框架 、 息烽 、 信息化 、 出错信息 、 信息技术基础设施库
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- 僖公 Lord Xi Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳 — count: 16
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- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 14
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
- 大略篇第二十七 Chapter 27: Great Summary Xunzi 荀子 — count: 13
Collocations
- 荀息 (荀息) 晉荀息請以屈產之乘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 37
- 息曰 (息曰) 先告荀息曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 13
- 息民 (息民) 以繼好息民 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
- 申息 (申息) 屈禦寇以申息之師戍商密 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 6
- 受息 (受息) 其受息之氓幾何千家 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重丁第八十三 Chapter 83: Weight IV — count: 5
- 蕃息 (蕃息) 五穀蕃息 — Guanzi 管子, 四時第四十 Chapter 40: The Four Seasons — count: 4
- 奄息 (奄息) 子車奄息 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧黃鳥 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Huang Niao — count: 3
- 息侯 (息侯) 息侯伐鄭 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 3
- 息媯 (息媯) 息媯將歸 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3
- 灭息 (滅息) 遂滅息 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3