休息きゅうそく

Chinese

		to rest	rest; news; interest rest; news; interest; breath
simp. and trad. (休息きゅうそく)		休きゅう	息いき

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xiūxi, xiūxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡ ˙ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧㄡ ㄒㄧˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): щющи (xi͡uxi, II-I) / щющи (xi͡uxi, I-I)

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): jau¹ sik¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): hiu¹ lhet²

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): hiû-sit

  (Hailu, HRS): hiu^ˋ sid

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hiu-siak / hiu-sek / hiu-sit

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hiun¹ sêg⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹shieu-shiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, mainland China)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiūxi
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ ˙ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siousi̊
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu¹-hsi⁵
    • Yale: syōu-syi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou.shi
    • Palladius: сюси (sjusi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ ɕi²/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiūxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siousí
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu¹-hsi²
    • Yale: syōu-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shioushyi
    • Palladius: сюси (sjusi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ ɕi³⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: щющи (xi͡uxi, II-I) / щющи (xi͡uxi, I-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiou⁵¹ ɕi²⁴/, /ɕiou²⁴ ɕi²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau¹ sik¹
    • Yale: yāu sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo¹ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: hiu¹ lhet²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiu³³ ɬet̚⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiû-sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: hiu^ˊ xid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hiu¹ xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /hi̯u²⁴ sit̚²/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: hiu^ˋ sid
    • Sinological IPA: /hiu⁵³ sit⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiu-siak
    • Tâi-lô: hiu-siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiusiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiu³³ siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiu-sek
    • Tâi-lô: hiu-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiuseg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiu⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Singapore): /hiu⁴⁴⁻²² sek̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiu⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiu-sit
    • Tâi-lô: hiu-sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiusid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu⁴⁴⁻²² sit̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hiun¹ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hĩũ³³⁻²³ sek̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹shieu-shiq
    • MiniDict: shieu^平ひらた shih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹xieu-xiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɤ⁵⁵ ɕiɪʔ²¹/

Verb

休息きゅうそく

1. to rest; to take a break

   早はや點てん休息きゅうそく。／早はや点てん休息きゅうそく。  ―  Zǎodiǎn xiūxi.  ―  Go to bed early.

   他た休息きゅうそく了りょう一いち會かい兒じ。 [MSC, trad.]
   他た休息きゅうそく了りょう一いち会かい儿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā xiūxi le yīhuìr. [Pinyin]

   He rested for a while.

   你工作こうさく太ふとし勤つとむ奮了りょう。休息きゅうそく一いち會かい吧。 [MSC, trad.]
   你工作こうさく太ふとし勤つとむ奋了りょう。休息きゅうそく一いち会かい吧。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ gōngzuò tài qínfèn le. Xiūxi yīhuì ba. [Pinyin]

   You're working too hard. Take a break for a while.

   本ほん店みせ是ぜ日び休息きゅうそく一いち天てん，敬けい請見み諒りょう。 [MSC, trad.]
   本ほん店みせ是ぜ日び休息きゅうそく一いち天てん，敬けい请见谅。 [MSC, simp.]

   Běn diàn shìrì xiūxi yī tiān, jìngqǐng jiànliàng. [Pinyin]

   Our shop will be closed for today. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Usage notes

Can also infer to sleep or to take break from work; to go on holiday depending on the context.

Synonyms

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• 休憩きゅうけい (xiūqì) (literary)
• 停とま歇 (tíngxiē)
• 停とま睏／停とま困こま (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 喘氣／喘气 (chuǎnqì) (to take a breather)
• 安息あんそく (ānxī)
• 憩いこい息いき (qìxī) (literary)
• 放ひ尞 (Taiwanese Hakka)
• 敨 (tau²) (Cantonese, Hakka)
• 歇 (xiē)
• 歇喘 (Hokkien, to take a breather)
• 歇息 (xiēxi)
• 歇氣／歇气 (xiēqì) (to take a breather)
• 歇𤺪 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 歇睏／歇困 (Hakka, Hokkien)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 休息きゅうそく (“to rest; to take a break”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		休息きゅうそく, 歇息
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	歇, 休息きゅうそく
	Taiwan	休息きゅうそく
	Singapore	休息きゅうそく
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	歇
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	歇
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	歇氣, 歇
	Wuhan	歇, 歇氣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	歇, 休息きゅうそく
	Hefei	歇
Cantonese	Guangzhou	敨, 歇
	Hong Kong	敨, 歇, 休息きゅうそく
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	敨
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	敨
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	敨
	Dongguan	敨
	Yangjiang	敨, 歇
Gan	Nanchang	歇
Hakka	Meixian	歇, 敨
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	歇睏, 休息きゅうそく
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	歇睏, 休息きゅうそく
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	歇睏, 休息きゅうそく
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	歇睏, 休息きゅうそく
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	歇睏, 休息きゅうそく
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	歇睏
	Hong Kong	敨
Jin	Taiyuan	歇
Northern Min	Jian'ou	歇
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	歇
Southern Min	Xiamen	歇, 歇睏
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	歇睏
	Quanzhou	歇睏
	Zhangzhou	歇睏
	Taipei	歇, 歇睏
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	歇
	Kaohsiung	歇, 歇睏
	Yilan	歇, 歇睏
	Changhua (Lukang)	歇, 歇睏
	Taichung	歇睏
	Tainan	歇, 歇睏
	Hsinchu	歇睏
	Kinmen	歇睏
	Penghu (Magong)	歇睏
	Singapore (Hokkien)	休息きゅうそく, 歇
	Manila (Hokkien)	休息きゅうそく
	Chaozhou	歇乏, 歇睏
	Puning	歇, 歇乏, 休息きゅうそく
Wu	Shanghai	歇作, 休息きゅうそく
	Suzhou	歇, 休息きゅうそく
	Wenzhou	歇, 休息きゅうそく
Xiang	Changsha	歇氣
	Shuangfeng	歇氣

Derived terms

• 休息きゅうそく室しつ
• 休息きゅうそく日び
• 休息きゅうそく站

 

See also

• 停とま歇 (tíngxiē)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
休きゅう	息いき
きゅう Grade: 1	そく Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きゅうそく [kyùúsókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲɨːso̞kɯ̟]

Noun

休きゅう(きゅう)息いき(そく) • (kyūsoku) ^{←きうそく (kiusoku)?}

1. rest (any relief from exertion)

Synonyms

• 休憩きゅうけい(きゅうけい) (kyūkei)
• 休きゅう(やす)み (yasumi)

Verb

休きゅう(きゅう)息いき(そく)する • (kyūsoku suru) ^{←きうそく (kiusoku)?}suru (stem 休きゅう(きゅう)息いき(そく)し (kyūsoku shi), past 休きゅう(きゅう)息いき(そく)した (kyūsoku shita))

1. to take a rest

Conjugation

Conjugation of "休息きゅうそくする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	休息きゅうそくし	きゅうそくし	kyūsoku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	休息きゅうそくし	きゅうそくし	kyūsoku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	休息きゅうそくする	きゅうそくする	kyūsoku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	休息きゅうそくする	きゅうそくする	kyūsoku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	休息きゅうそくすれ	きゅうそくすれ	kyūsoku sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	休息きゅうそくせよ¹ 休息きゅうそくしろ²	きゅうそくせよ¹ きゅうそくしろ²	kyūsoku seyo¹ kyūsoku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	休息きゅうそくされる	きゅうそくされる	kyūsoku sareru
Causative	休息きゅうそくさせる 休息きゅうそくさす	きゅうそくさせる きゅうそくさす	kyūsoku saseru kyūsoku sasu
Potential	休息きゅうそくできる	きゅうそくできる	kyūsoku dekiru
Volitional	休息きゅうそくしよう	きゅうそくしよう	kyūsoku shiyō
Negative	休息きゅうそくしない	きゅうそくしない	kyūsoku shinai
Negative continuative	休息きゅうそくせず	きゅうそくせず	kyūsoku sezu
Formal	休息きゅうそくします	きゅうそくします	kyūsoku shimasu
Perfective	休息きゅうそくした	きゅうそくした	kyūsoku shita
Conjunctive	休息きゅうそくして	きゅうそくして	kyūsoku shite
Hypothetical conditional	休息きゅうそくすれば	きゅうそくすれば	kyūsoku sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Synonyms

• 休きゅう(やす)む (yasumu)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
休きゅう	息いき

Noun

休息きゅうそく • (hyusik) (hangeul 휴식)

1. hanja form^? of 휴식 (“rest”)