息
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(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. [xi2]
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- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 心 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 息
- Common rank
- #606
- Unicode
- U+606F
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 息
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 休息 | rest; to rest | |
| 中国人权民运信息中心 | Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong | |
| 生生不息 | to grow and multiply without end | |
| 日出而作，日入而息 | lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb); fig. to lead a plain and hardwo… | |
| 中国国防科技信息中心 | China Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC) | |
| 无声无息 | wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking; taciturn; not providing any news | |
| 安息国 | Parthia | |
| 化学信息素 | semiochemical | |
| 安息日 | Sabbath | |
| 息事宁人 | to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom) | |
| 自强不息 | to strive unremittingly; self-improvement | |
| 信息管理 | information management | |
| 安息香科 | Styracaceae, tree family including silver-bell, snowdrop and benzoin | |
| 作息时间 | daily schedule; daily routine | |
| 作息时间表 | daily schedule; work schedule | |
| 信息时代 | information age | |
| 头信息 | header (computing) | |
| 信息学 | information science | |
| 信息化 | informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization) | |
| 生命不息，战斗不止 | while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last |
Sound family
These characters use 息 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 息 sound part | to end, to cease, to put a stop to; pause, breath, rest; news | |
| 媳 | daughter-in-law | |
| 螅 | intestinal worm | |
| 瘜 | polypus |